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荀子以经验的认识论取代了形而上学,其伦理学建立在认识论基础上,并与其语言学“正名”密不可分,因而可以对其作元伦理学的分析。但荀子的语言学只是对认识结果的描述,认识本身不能诉诸语言分析,并成为语言的基础。与此相反,西方元伦理学试图以语言僭越形而上学,从而陷入了语言的牢笼。由于荀子的认识论和语言学一脉相承,从而避免了西方元伦理学所纠结的事实与价值之争。认识论只可意会,不受语言的控制,而能够言传的事实和价值是认识的结果,都可以用正名的语言学理论来解释。从这个意义上,荀子的“正名”思想堪称中国元伦理学的开山之作。
Xunzi replaced metaphysics with his epistemology of experience. His ethics was based on epistemology and was closely related to his linguistics “正名 ”, so he could analyze his meta-ethics. However, Xunzi’s linguistics is only a description of the result of cognition. Knowledge can not resort to linguistic analysis itself and become the foundation of language. In contrast, Western meta-ethics attempts to metaphysically metaphysically and thus plunges into the language cage. Because of the same strain of epistemology and linguistics, Xunzi avoids the dispute between facts and values entangled by western meta-ethics. Epistemology can only be perceived and not controlled by the language. The facts and values that can be conveyed are the result of cognition, all of which can be explained by the nominal linguistic theory. In this sense, Xunzi’s “name ” ideology called the pioneering work of the Chinese meta-ethics.