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本文总结和批判性地反思了近期出现的将中国儒家思想与典型的非洲传统观念进行比较的研究现状,这些观念涉及人们对于善的认识、从根本上说什么是存在,以及人们如何获得知识。由于大多数的研究文献都探讨了价值理论,本文的关注也主要放在了这一方面。首先,本文阐述了两种文化传统之间具有何种的相似性及基本的价值观,认为中非两种文化传统的核心都是一种道德,它通过道德和尊重和谐关系规范了个人人性的发展。接着,本文指出这两种传统对于和谐的本质仍然持有不同的理解,并成为对于哪些实践在道德上适当的不同评判的基础。最后,本文讨论了本体论和认识论,这在中非比较哲学研究中才刚刚起步,本文为今后对于这些主题的研究提出了一些途径。
This paper summarizes and critically reflects on the recent research on the comparison between Chinese Confucianism and the typical African traditional concepts concerning people’s understanding of goodness, fundamentally speaking what is existence, and how people acquire knowledge. Since most of the research literature has explored value theory, the focus of this article is mainly on this aspect. First of all, this article elaborates the similarities and basic values between the two cultural traditions. It holds that the core of both China and Africa’s cultural traditions is a kind of morality. It regulates the development of individual human nature through morality and respect for the harmonious relations . The paper then points out that the two traditions still have different understandings of the nature of harmony and form the basis for different judgments about which morals are appropriate in practice. Finally, this article discusses ontology and epistemology, which is just beginning in the study of comparative philosophy between China and Africa. This paper provides some approaches for the future research on these topics.