中道与权量——中国传统智慧与施特劳斯眼中的古典理性主义

施特劳斯重建的西方理性主义与中国传统智慧可以从三个方面进行比较:人类灵魂的等级及其政治含义、微言大义,以及政治与哲学的关系。施特劳斯无意之间把西方政治哲学推进到一个不同的层面,由此能够对中国传统哲学思想进行全新的理解,并且有可能推动这两个伟大传统之间富有成效的对话。但有一个问题阻碍了施特劳斯对中国传统智慧的接近,那就是他对是的本质的理解。他坚持,是就是永远是,这使他严格地停留在西方传统形而上学的框架之内。施特劳斯的这一立场来自于他超越相对主义的需要。但是,中国传统智慧似乎提供了一种可能性,使人们在对人与事持一种开放性理解的同时,能够坚守某些确定的道德原则,这一点恰恰是施特劳斯没有意识到的。

The Middle Way and Power:China's Traditional Wisdom and Strauss' Ancient Rationalism

This paper compares Leo Strauss' reconstruction of ancient Western rationalism and Chinese traditional wisdom in three aspects:the hierarchy of human souls and its political relevance,esotericism,and the relation between philosophy and politics.On this basis,it demonstrates that Strauss has pushed unintentionally the Western political philosophy to a point from which a different vision of traditional Chinese philosophy would be clearly perceived,and made it possible to promote a much more productive communi...