摘 要: 在日常生活中,尤其是在争辩中,人们常常需要说理。从“道理”与“真理”的概念分疏出发,建议用“讲道理”来取代“讲真理”的说法,并在存在论上放弃具有绝对性和独一无二性的传统真理概念。但是,在哲学存在论上放弃真理概念并不意味着我们在日常生活实践中可以非理性地“蛮不讲理”或根本“无理可讲”。而是说,生根和生长在中国思想传统和生活实践中“道理”的概念,比较起西方哲学正统中的“真理”的概念,应该更能使我们日常以交往和沟通为核心目标的“讲理”活动成为可能。
关键词: 道理; 真理; 讲理; 思想解放
Truth, Dao-li and Reasoning
WANG Qing-jie
Abstract: Having distinguished between the concept of “dao li” and “truth”, the author argues that the Chinese conception of “dao li”(道理) may better serve as the ontological grounding for “reasoning” than its western counterpart truth (zhen li/真理)in our contemporary life.
Key words: dao li; zhen li; reasoning; emancipate the mind