François Noel,Reading Chinese Philosophy and Spiritual Transformation  

作　　者：温德 Yves Vendé

机构地区：[1]法国天主教里尔大学,巴黎59016

出　　处：《国际儒学（中英文）》2024年第2期150-169,193,194,共22页International Studies on Confucianism

摘　　要：卫方济(1651—1729)1711年出版了两本与中国哲学有关的书。《中国哲学》根据亚里士多德的框架向欧洲人介绍儒家思想,《中国经典》是六部儒家经典的译本。这两本书论述了一位欧洲传教士是如何通过阅读儒家经典及其注释而得到转变的。尽管卫方济的著作被卷入“中国礼仪之争”,克里斯蒂安·沃尔夫等几位德国哲学家对这些著作还是有所了解的,并在伦理领域的理性自主性受到威胁的辩论中使用了这些著作。卫方济的理论前提和解释方法可能从当代学术的角度看已经不再那么重要,但是他的这一案例表明,儒家经典的阅读是可以在伦理与实践的层面上改变一个欧洲学者的。卫方济的作品也邀请我们重新考虑系统哲学和作为实践的哲学之间的现代分裂,而这一分裂皮埃尔·哈多的著作已经做以批评了。从这个意义上说,卫方济将亚里士多德与孔子联系起来的尝试见证了一场更大的运动。In 1711,François Noël s.j.(1651-1729)published in Pragua two books related to Chinese philosophy,the Philosophia Sinica—a systematic presentation of Confucianism according to an Aristotelian framework divided into three treatises—and the Sinensis Imperii libri classici sex—a translation of the six Confucian Classics.In these two books,François Noël,who spent more than fifteen years in China,exemplifies how a European missionary has been transformed by reading Confucian Classics and their commentaries.Although his writings were caught up in the Rites controversy,German philosophers like Christian Wolff were in contact with them and used them in a debate where the autonomy of rationality in the field of ethics was at stake.Even if Noël's assumptions and hermeneutical methods are not academically valid anymore,his testimony shows that the engagement of Confucian classics can change one's framework,especially at a practical level.Noël's works are also an invitation to reconsider the modern split between systematic philosophy and philosophy as a practice,an opinion already formulated in the works of Pierre Hadot.In that sense,Noël's attempt to bridge Aristotle with Confucius is a witness of a larger movement of interweaving symbolic tools belonging to different traditions in order to answer human existence issues.

关 键 词：François Noël 新儒家 比较哲学 

分 类 号：B26[哲学宗教—中国哲学]