徐復觀思想中儒家與民主的連結：跨文化詮釋學的分析

Connections Between Confucianism and Democracy in Xu Fuguan's Thought: An Intercultural Hermeneutics

五四運動以來，中國知識份子提出了中國現代化最佳途徑的問題。本文旨在考察徐復觀的解決方案之文化預設。筆者指出，徐復觀系統性地進行了兩個面向的分析：首先，從中國傳統儒家思想的核心出發，對西方民主概念進行建構性的重新認識；其次，透過這個新的認識架構，來考察與詮釋中國的歷史（儒家傳統），並重新定義了當代新儒家與其傳統根源的關係。這兩個面向都具有跨文化特質，本文嘗試探索徐復觀的作品中這個受到忽視的面向：文化之間的相互接納性。

This essay investigates the cultural presuppositions of the innovative way in which Xu Fuguan 徐復觀, answers a major question concerning Chinese culture, asked by Chinese intellectuals since the May Fourth Movement: how best to approach the modernization of China. In the present analysis, I argue that to this end, Xu Fuguan systematically undertook a two-dimensional research project: first, coming to a genuinely reconstructive understanding of the initially Western notion of democracy from within the core of Chinese tradition (Confucianism); second, based on this understanding, building a new historical interpretation of the Chinese past (Confucian thought), thus redefining the Contemporary New Confucians' relation with their own tradition. Both dimensions are cross-cultural, and my intention is to explore in particular a facet of his work, which has not been previously addressed: Xu Fuguan's project as an act of cultural hospitality.