国际哲学界

对方东美先生的评鉴举隅

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一、“我们当代一位伟大的学者兼教育家。作为一位哲学家，东美先生不愧体现了他自己 的人格理想集诗人、先知、圣贤三重复合的人格于一身。”（注一）

——韩路易，《当代大哲丛刊》总编，美国哲学会一九六七年度 “风云人物”  奖及“终身成就奖”得主。

二、 “对方教授浩巨的哲学劳绩，我们大家都应该深深铭感。他帮助我们了解中国哲学的独创性 与伟大。其高瞻综覽使中国文化的崇山峻岭，大河幽谷一一朗现，尽收眼底，得未曾有！” （注二）

——戴尔．瑞璧，美国纽约水牛城纽约大学教授兼哲学系主任，英国皇家科学院士，苏联莫斯科大学客座教授。

三、 “方东美教授是中国当代一位伟大的哲人；可惜其着作译介到西方太少！”（ 注三）

             ——海耶克， “一九七五年诺贝尔经济奖”得主。

 四 、 “处理最艰深的大乘佛学问题，方教授举重若轻，令人叹佩。”（注四）

——稻田龟男，铃木大拙及中村元大弟子、美国纽约水牛城纽约州大亚洲及比较哲学研究计划主任。

 五、 “与捷同辈中国学人之中，影响力之大如方先生者，不多见也。”（注五）

       ——陈荣捷，美国宾州查南学院中国哲学与文化讲座教授。

六、 “一九六四年第四届东西方哲学家会议，方先生论文不愧精心结撰，压卷之作。冠绝一时，允称独步。”（注六）

        ——铃木大拙，日本禅学泰斗。

 

七、 “西方及美国承认台湾有哲学，是因为台湾有方东美！”（注七）

                    ----柯文雄，美国华盛顿美洲天主教大学神哲学院教授。

 八、 “中国古典诗人，如方东美先生者，今后绝矣！”（注八）

——钱锺书，中国北京，学者、诗人、文艺批评家。

九、 “虽然此世不能再会，但方东美博士博雅高明的学风卻深铭我心；只好期待将来我有机会能夠显扬這種典型的中华学风，而使日本的学者也能由此有所反省及效法。”（注九）

——中村元，日本印度学泰斗，东方学会会长。

 十、 “真未想到一位东方人，以英语着述，向西方介绍中国哲学思想，其英语之造诣如是其优美典雅，求之于当时之英美学者亦不多见！”（注十）

——麦克．摩伦，英国牛津大学，法国巴黎大学中国思想史教授。

十一、 “我今天才知道谁真正是中国最伟大的哲学家。”（注十一）

——查理．穆尔，美国夏威夷檀香山夏威夷大学哲学系主任，东西      方哲学家会议主要创办人。

十二、 “方氏此部巨着，内涵宛如一幅富丽万千的锦绣，……。不啻一部别具风格的思想自传，……。举以与其他同类鸟瞰中国哲学之作品相较，……。对哲学专门读者而言，其启发性之丰富，则迥非其他可以望项。其多层次之探讨，对专门哲学者层层深入，引人入胜，……”（注十二）

——华珊嘉，美国加州圣地亚哥大学哲学系教授兼亚洲及太平洋地区研究中心主任。

 

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注       释

 

注一﹕参看韩路易，〈方东美先生与中国哲学精神〉收入《方东美先生的哲学》（台北﹕幼狮文化事业公   司，一九八八），页五；及韩路易着，孙智燊编译，《增进东西文化交融》（美国阿拉巴马州莫比尔市﹕东美研究所，一九九九），页八八。

 

注二﹕参看《方东美先生的哲学》，页一九三。

 

注三﹕参看《哲学与文化》，卷二，第十二期，台北，一九七五，页一六。

 

注四﹕一九八七年台北举行方东美先生哲学首届国际研讨会，稻田龟男教授复译

     者邀请函言；氏撰论文〈诺索普教授体验范畴学重探〉，发表于《方东美先生的哲学》， 页一九五—二二二。

 

注五﹕一九八七年陈荣捷先生致方东美先生哲学首届国际研讨会執行委员会函。

 

注六﹕一九七二年檀香山王阳明逝世五百周年纪念专题研讨会上，铃木大拙弟子

     张锺沅教授亲语译者。

 

注七﹕一九九一年，美京华府国际教育及文化促进基金会颁奖东美研究所，假美

     洲天主教大学神哲学院     举行酒会；柯教授亲告译者及陈一 川先生。

 

注八﹕一九八七钱先生在北京语陈一川先生。

 

注九﹕参看上引，《方东美先生的哲学》， 页三八四。

 

注十﹕麦克摩伦教授亲语王士仪先生，时留学牛津；参看《哲学与文化》，卷

     二，第六期，台北，一九七五，孙智燊，〈言有尽、愿无穷〉——〈中国形上学中之宇宙与个人〉译序，页五一—二。

 

注十一﹕参看同上，页五一。

 

注十二﹕参看华珊嘉,<书评:方东美, 《中国哲学精神及其发展》>,《东西哲学》季刊，

  卷卅五，第一期 (1986年元月)，页七二—七四。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Glimpse of Evaluations

 

1. “…. one of the great scholar-teacher of our time.  As a philosopher he exemplified his own ideal of the combined personages of poet, prophet, and sage.”[1]

 

---- Lewis E. Hahn, Editor, Library of Living Philosophers; awarded “Man of the Year in Philosophy” (1967); “Lifetime Achievements” (1998), APA (American Philosophical Association);

 

2. “Whatever our conclusion, we are deeply indebted to the great philosophical labors of Professor Thomé Fang who helped us to understand the ingenuity and greatness of Chinese philosophy.  His lofty generalizations make clear as never before the mountain peaks and river valleys of Chinese culture.”[2]

 

---- Dale Maurice Riepe, formerly Professor and Chairman, Philosophy Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY; Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Moscow, Soviet Russia.

 

3. “Professor Thomé Fang is one of the great philosophers of contemporary China; unfortunately, too little of his works has been translated in the West.”[3]

 

---- Fredreick von Hayek, Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, 1975.

 

4. “Professor Fang treats the most difficulty problems of Mahayana Buddhism with admirable facility!”[4]

 

---- Kenneth K. Inada, formerly Professor of Philosophy, & Director of Asian and Comparative Philosophy Project, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY.

 

5. “Of all the presentations to the 1964 East-West Philosophers’ Conference I am most impressed with Professor Fang’s as the best.”[5]

 

---- D. T. Suzuki, the world’s leading authority on Zen Buddhism, Kyoto, Japan.

 

6. “Of all Chinese scholars of my generation few have exerted such a great impact as Professor Fang.”[6]

 

---- Wing-tsit Chan, the late Anna R. D. Gillespie Professor of Philosophy and Chinese Culture, Chatham College, PA.

 

7. “The West, or the United States, recognizes that Taiwan has philosopher, because Taiwan has Thomé H, Fang.”[7]

 

---- Antonio Cuo, Professor, School of Philosophy and Theology,

Catholic University of America, Washington D.C .

 

8. “Professor Thomé Fang is the last great classical poet China has ever produced!”[8]

 

---- Qian Zhongshu, scholar, poet, novelist, literary critic, Beijing, China.

 

9. “Although it is unlikely that we would be able to meet again in this life; yet I am deeply impressed with the grand style of Dr. Thomé H. Fang as a scholar, … Now I only hope that there will still be opportunities for me to show such a style as typical of China, so that our Japanese scholars would have a model to reflect upon and to learn from.”[9]

 

---- Hajime Nakamura, President, Eastern Society, Tokyo, Japan.

 

10. “Never could I imagine it possible for an Easterner to present Chinese philosophy to the West in such elegant and classical English to be rarely found among the British and American scholars of our time.”[10]

 

---- Ian McMorran, Professor of History of Chinese Thought, Oxford University, England, and University of Paris, France.

 

11. “Not until now do I know who is the greatest philosopher of China.”[11]

 

---- Charles Moore, the late Chairman, Philosophy Department, and Founder of East-West Philosophers’ Conference, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI.

 

12. “Each of these threads—Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and, to a much lesser extent, Western thought—has been skillfully interwoven into the complex tapestry of Fang’s magnum opus, Chinese Philosophy: Its Spirit and Its Development.  As such the volume represents a form of intellectual autobiography…. In comparing Fang’s text to other, similar attempts at a synoptic overview of Chinese philosophy, .... it is also far more provocative for a philosophical reader. Fang’s multileveled discussions can engage the interest (and occasionally the ire) of a professional philosopher.”

---- Sandra A. Wawrytko, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.

 

 

 

Notes

 

[1] Cf. Lewis E. Hahn, “Thomé H. Fang and the Spirit of Chinese Philosophy,” in The Philosophy of Professor Thomé H. Fang, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on ThoméH. Fang, Taipei: The Youth Culltural Enterprise, Inc., 1988, p. 5; Lewis E. Hahn, Enhancing Cultural Imterflow between East and West, ed. & tr. George C. H. Sun (Mobile: The Thomé H. Fang Institute, 1998), p. 88.

 

[2] Cf. The Philosophy of Professor Thomé H. Fang, p. 193.

 

[3] Cf. Universitas, A Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, Vol. II, No. 12, Taipei, 1975, 16.

 

[4] Professor Inada’s Letter to the Executive Committee, First International Symposium on Thomé H. Fang.

 

[5] According to Professor Chung-yuan Chang, a disciple of D. T. Suzuki, during the 5th Anniversary Symposium on Wang Yang-ming, 1972, Honolulu, HI.

 

[6] Professor Chan’s Letter to the Executive Committee, First International Symposium on Thomé H. Fang.

 

[7] According to Professor Antonio Cuo at the Award Reception for the Thomé H. Fang Institute, given by the Foundation of Promotion of International Education and Culture, at School of Philosophy and Theology, Catholic University of Amercia, Washington D. C., 1991.

 

[8] According to Professor Qian Zhongshu in a conversation with Mr. I-chuan Chen in Washington D.C., 1987.

 

[9] Cf. The Philosophy of Thomé H. Fang, p. 384.

 

[10] Cf. Universitas, A Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, Vol. II. No. 6, Taipei, 1975, 7.

 

[11] Cf. Ibid., 51.

 

[12] Cf. Sandra A. Wawrytko, “Book Review on Thomé H. Fang, Chinese Philosophy:  Its Spirit and Its Development,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. XXXV, No. 1 (January, 1986), 72-74.