明清之际是中国古典思想迈向现代的关键转折期,启蒙思潮拉开了中国现代价值观念的初生历程,也推动了传统知识观念的深刻转变。一是伴随汉宋之争而展开的经学与理学之辨,明清之际学人剖析两者的分殊,意在将经典诠释的范式,从宋明侧重阐发义理的取向,回归汉唐讲究实事求是的学术传统。二是通过解构宋明的道统论,清儒进而消解 “四书”的“圣经”名义,将其还原为传记或儒家类子书,从而取消宋明理学家依托“四书”而诠释的道学之正统性。三是清代考据学家倡导“以子证经、释经”,使先秦诸子典籍的材料性价值获认可,推动经学与子学从对立转为相互印证与互动的关系。这些变化共同勾勒出明清之际思想世界的剧烈变动,与当时的思想启蒙浪潮相呼应。
Theories Concerning the Jing-Zi Relationship and the Intellectual Movement During the Ming-Qing Transition Period
Huang Yanqiang(Wuhan University)
Abstract The late-Ming and early-Qing period marked a pivotal transformation in the Chinese classical intellectual world as it moved towards modernity. The intellectual movement of this era initiated the nascent emergence of modern Chinese values while driving profound transformations in traditional epistemological frameworks. Firstly, in the debates between Jingxue (Classical Studies) and Lixue (Neo-Confucianism) unfolded alongside the Han-Song (Han Learning vs. Song Learning) controversy, scholars of this period meticulously analyzed their differences with the aim of to reorient hermeneutic paradigms from the Song-Ming focus on the interpretations of yili (meaning and principle) back toward the Han-Tang tradition of seeking truth from facts. Secondly, by deconstructing the Song-Ming doctrine of daotong (Confucian orthodoxy), Qing Confucianism stripped Si Shu (the ''Four Books'') of their canonical status as "sacred scriptures'', reclassifying them as biographical or sub-Confucian texts, thereby undermining the legitimacy of Song-Ming Neo- Confucian interpretations based on Si Shu. Thirdly, evidential scholars in Qing Dynasty advocates verifying and interpreting Jing with Zi, thereby recognizing the material value of the pre-Qin classics, and shifting Jing- Zi relationship from antagonism to mutual validation and interaction. All these shifts delineate the seismic intellectual upheavals in the Ming-Qing transition period, and resonate with the contemporary intellectual movement.
Key words the Jing-Zi Relationship (between Confucian Classics and non-Confucian Masters' Works); intellectual movement; the Debates between Jingxue (Classical Studies) and Lixue (Neo-Confucianism); the Restoration of Si Shu (the ''Four Books''); Jing-Zi Interaction (between Confucian Classics and non-Confucian Masters' works)
■ 作者简介 黄燕强,武汉大学哲学学院副教授,湖北 武汉430072。