学术资讯｜全球正义工作坊第三十九讲：重塑中国的世界主义

Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. China, however, took a different historical path. In Chinese Cosmopolitanism , I argue that the Chinese cultural tradition was, from its formative beginnings and throughout its imperial history, a cosmopolitan melting pot that synthesized the different cultures that came into its orbit. Unlike the West, which cast its collisions with different cultures in Manichean terms of the ontologically irreconcilable difference between civilization and barbarism, China was a dynamic identity created out of difference. The reasons for this, I argue, are philosophical: Chinese philosophy has the conceptual resources for providing alternative ways to understand pluralism.

从历史上看，西方在面对文化差异时，往往导致灾难性的结果，如对原住民的灭绝和驱逐、跨大西洋奴隶贸易及殖民主义。 然而，中国走上了一条不同的历史道路。 在《重塑中国的世界主义》一书中，我论证了中国文化传统自其形成之初及整个帝国历史期间，始终是一个世界主义的熔炉，融合了它所接触到的不同文化。 西方以一种摩尼教式的方式，将其与不同文化的碰撞描绘为文明与野蛮之间本体论意义上不可调和的对立，与此不同，中国是一个由差异交融而成的动态身份。 我将阐明，这种差异的根源在于哲学： 中国哲学具备提供理解多元主义的独特概念资源。