書評－－《荀子禮治思想的淵源與戰國諸子之研究》

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《荀子禮治思想的淵源與戰國諸子之研究》一書，主旨在：「闡明《荀子》中的多樣禮概念如何發揮其綜合功能，以及此綜合性之思想意義。」藉以「了解其如何統整當時在戰國思想家之間所展開的各種主張」（頁4）。本書特別凸顯出《荀子》中「禮」概念之重要性，並將其禮治論的整體性特質歸納為以下兩點：第一，當戰國時代中晚期的齊國稷下思想家在探討「治亂」問題，包括宇宙秩序中「禮」的角色等問題之思想環境下，《荀子》將「禮」概念以「治」概念為媒介，間接地與「道」概念作連結，建立了「禮」就是秩序本身的觀點。第二，荀子深感發揮「禮」功能之關鍵處並不在於宇宙或本體論上的領域，而是在相對於天地的「人」之領域。而且，《荀子》的「人」並不是指居住在某個地區或構成某一國的具體人群，而是能組成社會乃至國家的總體人類。

This book falls in two parts. The first nine chapters focus largely on Li Qingzhao's struggle for acceptance as a woman writer and the cultural process through which she eventually became canonized in the Chinese tradition. Egan problematizes received notions that have come to dominate the interpretation of her song lyrics and offers, in the second part of the book (chapters 10-11), a fresh reading of these lyrics by treating them as literary creations rather than first-person statements about her personal circumstances.