今年9月9日是湯一介先生辭世兩周年忌日。想到先生說過的許多話,頗多感慨。上世紀90年代,湯先生曾與一位比利時大學生對話。問,湯一介爲什麼不說自己是哲學家?湯曰“這個問題得由中國近半個世紀的歷史來回答”。本世紀初,湯先生在《我的哲學之路》自序中再次寫到,那一時期的普遍看法是,只有馬恩列斯、毛澤東等幾位偉大領袖才可以被稱爲哲學家。“其他人只能是哲學工作者。他們的任務只是解釋這些偉大人物的哲學思想’。并且,這類解釋往往是政治的,簡化的,而不是哲學的。比如全部哲學史就只是存在與意識、唯物與唯心、進步與反動的簡單歸類。不能指望人人都是哲學家,但卻應當主張,每一個 September 9 this year is the second anniversary of the death of Mr. Tom Yoshihiro day. Thought a lot of words that Mr. said, a lot of emotion. In the 1990s, Mr. Tang talked to a Belgian college student. Asked why he did not say that he is a philosopher? Tang said ”This question must be answered by the history of China for nearly half a century “. At the beginning of this century, again, Mr. Tang wrote in the preface to My Path to My Philosophy that during that period, the general opinion was that only the great leaders such as Marlez and Mao Zedong could be called philosophers. Other people can only be philosophical workers, whose task is simply to explain the philosophical ideas of these great people. ”And such explanations tend to be political, simplistic, and not philosophical, such as the history of all philosophies Consciousness, materialism and idealism, a simple categorization of progress and reaction can not be expected to be philosophers, but it should be argued that each one