学术资讯｜比较哲学工作坊第四十一讲：《老子》及其在早期中国哲学的影响

Organizer

Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)，

 Sun Yat-sen University

Topic

The Laozi and Its Consequences in Early Chinese Philosophy (Virtual)

Speaker

​Tao JIANG,

 Professor, 

Department of Religion and Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University

Moderator

 Jun-Hyeok KWAK, 

Professor, 

Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University

Time

Mar. 13. 2023,

19: 30-21: 30 

VOOV

195 960 537

ABSTRACT:

This talk is based on Chapter 3 of my book, Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China (Oxford University Press, 2021). The role of the Laozi in the intellectual landscape of early Chinese moral-political philosophy has not been properly appreciated, partly due to the anachronistic labeling of it as a daojia text which takes it outside its pre-Qin context. I argue that the singular contribution of the Laozi lies in its new understanding of Heaven and its drastic reorientation of the Heaven-human relationship in the subsequent Chinese moral-political discourse. This would set the stage for the most consequential development in Chinese political history, namely the drastic bureaucratization and naturalization of the state with impartiality enshrined as the political norm for the state in the hands of the fajia thinkers. The Laozi was an extraordinarily influential text in the context of pre-Qin Chinese philosophy: its wuwei project both “succeeded” and “failed” spectacularly, almost in the Nietzschean sense of transvaluation of values in that the construction of a vast and sophisticated state apparatus, the ultimate youwei project, is construed as a wuwei product that is supposed to operate naturally, just like Heaven.

主办

主题

《老子》及其在早期中国哲学的影响（线上）

主讲

Tao JIANG （蒋韬）

罗格斯大学 宗教系和哲学系 教授

主持

Jun-Hyeok KWAK （郭峻赫）

中山大学哲学系（珠海） 教授

时间

2024年3月13日 

19: 30 - 21: 30

地点

腾讯会议 195 960 537

摘要

本次讲座基于我的著作《中国先秦道德-政治哲学起源》（牛津大学出版社，2021年出版）的第三章。 《老子》在中国先秦道德-政治哲学思想图景中的角色并未被恰当地承认，部分原因在于它被年代错乱地贴上“道家”文本的标签，并被置于其所处的先秦语境之外。 我认为，《老子》的独特贡献在于它对“天”的新理解，以及它在中国后世的道德-政治对话中，对天人关系的激进重新定位。 这为中国政治史最重大的发展奠定了基础，即： 在“法家” 思想家之手中，“激进的官僚化”与“以公正对国家的自然化”被奉为国家的政治规范。 在中国先秦哲学的语境中，《老子》是一个极有影响力的文本，它的“无为”的规划，几乎在尼采式重估一切价值的意义上，引人注目地既成功又失败了。 庞大而复杂的国家机器的建构，最终“有为”的规划，被解释成一种像“天”一样，应当自然运作的“无为”的产物。