Vol. 22 No. 1 3/1992
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Title |
An Examination of the Hermeneutic Foundation of the Traditional Text-interpretation of Chun-chiu Scripture from the Viewpoint of the Spiritual Phenomenon of the Poetic Arising |
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Author |
Nein-feng Chiang |
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Article |
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27-63 |
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Chinese |
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Abstract |
This paper tries to argue that there is a common hermeneutic foundation under the traditional text interpretation of Confucian scriptures. This hermeneutic foundation can be described as a spiritual phenomenology of the poetic arising. The clues to reveal this phenomenology lie in the thinking way filled with poetic images adopted by the Poetry Scripture, the Books of Change, and Chun-Chiu Scripture. This spiritual phenomenon of the poetic arising also leads us to discover that ancient Confucianism held a notion of “primordial language” which expressed itself as wind-blowing, an ontological action, through which things then begin to exist. And this mode of thought establishes a point that naming or language employed in value judgements appearing in Chun-Chiu Scripture plays an ontological role. The phenomenology of the poetic arising also suffices to reveal the three different Gestalten of poetic arising brought about from our textual reading of the Three Commentaries on Chun-Chiu Scripture. Those three different Gestalten of the poetic arising make possible a spiritual Bildung, by which tradition Chinese intellectuals were oriented toward enjoying a profound consciousness of their own history, culture and moral responsibility.
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