中国古代思维方式的西方认知

以安乐哲和郝大维为代表的一些西方汉学家从思维方式出发探寻中西文化的差异，为我们比较中西文化提供了一个全新的视角。在他们看来，中国古代占主流的思维方式是关联性思维，这种思维方式对应的宇宙秩序是一种美学的秩序。而西方占主流的思维方式是因果性思维，这种思维方式对应的宇宙秩序是一种理性的秩序。

Western Conceptions of Ancient Chinese Thinking Modes

Some western sinologists represented by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall, explored the differences hetween Chinese and western cultures from thinking modes, which provided a new perspective for our comparison. In their views, the prevailing mode of thinking is the correlative thinking in ancient China, whose corresponding cosmic order is the aesthetic order. While in western countries, the mode is the causal thinking and its cosmic order is the rational order.