摘要
"混沌"神话是原始先民对宇宙如何起源和万物如何生成等本原问题的集体想象和解释。就其对本原问题的探索和认识而论,"混沌"神话与中希哲学之间存在一种或隐或显的渊源关系。在中国,远古的"混沌"神话观念潜隐地影响了老子"道"的提出,老子对"道"的描述反过来又影响了后来文献对"混沌"神话的记述;而在希腊,先于哲学而存在的"混沌"神话则直接启发了"始基"这一核心概念的形成,但希腊哲学产生之后不再回到作为其文化背景的神话母体中,而是继续向前发展。本文以中希创世神话中的"混沌"神话为研究对象,考察和探究该神话中所包含的哲学意蕴,即为中希早期哲学概念的形成所提供的文化资源。
The myth of Chaos is the collective imagination and explanation of the primitive people about the origin of the universe and the formation of all things on earth. As far as their exploration into and recognition of such issues as the ＂arehe＂ are concerned, there lies an obscure or obvious connection between the myth of Chaos and the sino-greek philosophy. In China, the ide.. as in the myth of Chaos in the ancient times exerted some obscure influence on the formation of Laozi＇ s ＂Dao＂, and Laozi＇ s depietious of ＂Dao＂ shed some light in reverse on the retellings of the myth of Chaos in the later literature; while in Greece, the myth of Chaos whose existence is prior to philosophy directly enlightened the advancement of the key philosophieal notion ＂primordium＂, but the Greek philosophy developed its way onward instead of returning to the matrix of myth which functioned as its cultural background. The present paper studies the philosophical connotations of the myths of Chaos in sino-greek creation myths, which are revealed in their cultural resources for the formation of the earlier sino-greek philosophical notions.
作者简介
李滟波，文学博士，中南大学外国语学院英语系教授，主要从事英美文学和比较文学研究。Email ： yanbolee@2118.cn
