登梯观美与游心闻道——探寻智慧人生的两条路径
文章摘要:作为轴心时代的两大思想家,古希腊的柏拉图(公元前428-前348年)和中国的庄子(公元前369-前286年)都十分关注普遍的人类生存状况,他们将自我修养作为切入点,苦苦探索通向智慧人生的路径。在他们各自提出的诸多路径中,最发人深省的或许当数两段寓说:一则是柏拉图著名的“美之阶梯”寓说,象征着对至高哲思人生和神性智慧的追求;另一则是庄子的“游心闻道”寓说,讲述了道之获得与精神自由及人格独立的关系。
Abstract:Being two ancient thinkers living in the axial period,both Plato(428-348 BC)from Hellas and Zhuangzi(369-286 BC)from China are preoccupied with the human condition in general,and engaged in the search of the good life through self-cultivation in particular. They have offered many interesting alternatives among which two allegorical descriptions turn out to be more appealing to my reconsideration:one is renowned as the beauty la... 展开