①当然,笔者并不否认这几位学者的朱子学比较研究的诚意和成果。只是因为他们的比较研究着意于在短小篇幅内(只是论文而不是专著)从速比较朱子思想与其他西方思想家的思想异同,虽可能为朱子学研究提供某种西方新视角,但不免将西方概念和思想派别强加于朱子。参见Bruce对朱子的“太极”与斯宾诺莎的“上帝”特性的比较:ChuHsiandHisMasters.London:Probsthain,1923∶148,241;Graf神父对朱子与斯宾诺莎一元论的比较以及对朱子的神学观与托马斯·阿奎那的有神论的比较:DschuHsi,Djin silu,die sunkonfuzianische Summamitdem Kommen-tar des YaTsai,Tokyo:Sophia University,1953∶278-297;以及Needham对朱子与怀特海、莱布尼茨机械论的比较:Scienceand CivilizationinChina(BookII):History o旷the ScientificThought.Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,1956:458、474、478、496-505 。
②HarvardJournal ofAsiatic Studies.Volume l,1936∶109-127.
③ 如Paul E.Callahan. “Chu His and St.Thomas:A Comparison”.Harvard University CommitteeonInternational and Regional Studies, Papers on China, Volume 4, 1950:1-23.
④对陈荣捷的这几本重要的朱子学考证著作的介绍,参见本文第一部分“声韵训诂的方法”。
① 如, Andrew J.Dell'olio. “Zhu Xi and Thomas Aquinas on the Foundations of Moral Self-Culti-vation”.Proceedings ofthe American Catholic Philosophical Association.77(2003)∶235-246.又如,Kenneth Dorter, “Metaphysics and Morality in Neo-Confucianism and Greece:Zhu Xi, Plato, Aristot-le,and Plotinus” .Dao∶A Journal of Comparative Philosophy8.3(Sep 2009):255-276.
② 比较著名的有成中英(Cheng Chung-Ying)的论文“Ultimate origin,Ultimate Reality,and the Human Condition:Leibniz,Whitehead,and Zhu Xi”.Journal ofChinese Philosophy29.1(Mar2002):93-118.以及黄勇的一系列论文“Zhu Xi on Ren(Humanity)and Love:A Neo-ConfucianWay out ofthe Liberal-Communitarian Impasse”.Journal ofChinese Philosophy23.2(Jun 1996):213-235;“The Self-Centeredness Objection to Virtue Ethics:Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Response”.American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly84.4(Oct 2010):651-692;“Two Dilemmas in Virtue Eth-ics and How Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism Avoids Them”.Journal ofPhilosophical Research36(201 1):247-281.
③ New York:SUNY Press,1998.
④ New York:Oxford University Press,2000.
⑤参见伍安祖《北美学界朱熹研究近况》,载《中国哲学与文化(第二辑):注释,诠释,还是创构?》,刘笑敢主编,广西师范大学出版社2007年版,第270—273页。
① Berthrong, Concerning Creativity:A Comparison ofChuHsi,Whitehead, andNeville, NewYork:SUNY Press 1998:74-79,111-141.
② Ching,Julia,The Religious Thought ofChu Hsi,New York:Oxford University Press,2000:32-53、59-60、67、81、94、123-236、212-213、228.
③ Ching,Julia,The Religious ThoughtofChuHsi,New York:Oxford University Press,2000:44-47、115-122、195-196、210-211.