地方知识与全球视野:21世纪宗教知识分子的责任

秉持开放,了解多元,不以自己狭隘的观点强加于人,才能推动文明之间的对话。文明对话的先决条件首先是聆听,最基本的要求是容忍对方;其次是承认对方,承认才可能有尊重,有了尊重才可能把对方当作自己的参照,才能把对方当作学习的对象,才能尊重对方。对话的目的是扩大自己的视野,加强自己的反思反省能力,实现社会和谐与世界和平。

Local Knowledge and Global Vision: The Duty of the Religious Intellectuals in the 21st Century

The dialogue between different civilizations can be promoted only by the opening to the outside world,the willingness to understand pluralism and the avoidance of imposing one's parochial ideas on the other.The precondition of this dialogue is the willingness to listen,its basic requirement is the tolerance of the other,and then comes the acknowledgement of the other on which respect relies.Only with respect can one regard the other as one's reference and the example to follow.Such dialogue aims at widening one's vision and improving one abilities of introspection in order to build a harmonious society and world peace.