The First Documents of Encounter between Aristotelian and Confucian Ethics: Historical and Hermeneutic Perspectives

亚里士多德伦理学与儒家伦理学相遇的第一份文献：历史和诠释学的视角

• 批准号: 407689948
• 负责人: Dr. Henrik Jaeger
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/407689948?language=en
• 关键词: First; Documents; Encounter; between; Aristotelian

In the 17th century the Jesuits began to translate philosophical texts into Chinese and Chinese classics into Latin, thus they created the basic preconditions for the first "Encounter" between Confucius and Aristotle and also for a multifaceted and lasting reception of Confucian philosophy in the era of the early Enlightenment. An important document of this encounter, the first Latin version of the “Four Books” appeared in 1711 in Prague as part of the "Imperii Sinensis Libri Classici Sex" (Libri Classici) in a translation by Francois Noel (1659 – 1726). This version has been the object of research in the project "Imperii Sinensis Libri Classici Sex". In the process of this research the central role of the “Nicomachean Ethics” (EN) for Noels interpretation of the "Four Books" (Neoconfucian canon, base of all discourses on ethics since the 13th century) became evident. But I didn’t succeed in demonstrating, whether Noel had examples for his interpretation in form of earlier discussions of the EN in the Chinese context. A Chinese version of the EN, published as "The Western Study of Personal Cultivation" (Xiushenxixue, XSHXX) by Alfonso Vagnone (1568 – 1640) in 1630 could have been possibly such an example. The XSHXX is a tract in Classical Chinese the introduces the central issues if the EN in translations and paraphrases. Even when it will be impossible to prove a direct influence of the XSHXX on Noels work, it is a matter of fact that both used the same source, the Coimbra-commentary of Manuel de Gois (1593). The main topic of this project is the edition and analysis of the XSHXX. By this research it should become clear, in which ways Vagnone discusses the resonances and the differences between Aristotelian and Confucian thought. A further aim is the description of the XSHXX in the context of the history of Western and Chinese thought.Together with Noels "Libri Classici" this description will be the basic material to write a survey of the first period of Chinese receptions of the EN and its multifaceted influences in China and in the West.

17世纪，耶稣会士开始将哲学著作翻译成中文，将中国经典翻译成拉丁文，为孔子与亚里士多德的第一次“相遇”以及儒家哲学在儒家哲学时代的多方面、持久的接受创造了基本前提。早期启蒙运动的一个重要文献是《四书》的第一本拉丁文版本，作为《帝国》的一部分于 1711 年在布拉格问世。弗朗索瓦·诺埃尔（Francois Noel，1659 – 1726）翻译的《Sinensis Libri Classici Sex》（Libri Classici）。该版本一直是“Imperii Sinensis Libri Classici Sex”项目的研究对象。在这项研究过程中，诺埃尔对“四书”（新儒家经典，自十三世纪以来所有伦理学论述的基础）的“尼各马可伦理学”（EN）解释但我没有成功地证明，诺埃尔是否有他在中国背景下对EN的早期讨论的解释的例子，出版为《西方个人修养研究》。 ” (Xiushenxixue, XSHXX) 由阿方索·瓦格诺 (Alfonso Vagnone) (1568 – 1640) 于 1630 年撰写，可能就是这样的一个例子。XSHXX 是一本古典汉语小册子，介绍了即使无法证明 XSHXX 对诺埃尔作品的直接影响，事实上两者都使用相同的来源，即曼努埃尔·德·戈伊斯的科英布拉评论（ 1593）这个项目的主要主题是《XSHXX》的编辑和分析，通过这项研究应该可以清楚瓦尼奥内以何种方式讨论亚里士多德学派和儒家学派之间的共鸣和差异。进一步的目标是在西方和中国思想史的背景下描述《XSHXX》。这一描述与诺尔斯的《经典书目》一起，将成为撰写对中国第一时期接受情况的调查的基本材料。 EN 及其对中国和西方的多方面影响。