“南方无穷而有穷”命题新解  

A New Solution to the Proposition “The South is Endless and Poor”

作　　者：钟君艳 杨述明[1] ZHONG Jun-yan;YANG Shu-ming(Institute of Philosophy,Hubei Academy of Social Sciences,Wuhan 430077,China)

机构地区：[1]湖北省社会科学院哲学所,武汉430077

出　　处：《南昌航空大学学报（社会科学版）》2022年第4期20-24,107,共6页Journal of Nanchang Hangkong University(Social Sciences)

摘　　要：名家代表人物惠施曾有“历物十事”之说,其中第六事“南方无穷而有穷”之解历来众说纷纭。进一步明晰此句之解,不仅需要联系惠施所在的时代背景及其知识范围,更需联系此句所涉及的学科知识范围作考察研究。从语言学与自然哲学不同角度出发,结合惠施“名实论”与宇宙观思想,通过说文解字的方式建构系统化理解,便知此“南方”实则有二义,“无穷”为名之无穷,“有穷”则可以为名之有穷,亦可以为实之有穷。Hui Shi, a representative of famous scholars, has a theory of “ten events in history”, of which the sixth matter is “the south is endless and poor”. Opinions on it vary. To further clarify the interpretation of this sentence, it is necessary not only to contact Hui Shi’s era background and the scope of knowledge, but also to investigate and study the scope of subject knowledge involved in this sentence. From different perspectives of linguistics and natural philosophy, combined with Hui Shi’ s thought of“name and reality” and constructing a systematic understanding through the method of explaining words and characters, we know that this “southern” actually has two meanings. The “infinity” is nominally infinite and the “finite” may belong to nominally finite and real finite.

关 键 词：惠施 南方 无穷 有穷 

分 类 号：B225.3[哲学宗教—中国哲学]