歷史的境界：形上與歷史思維

Minding the Life: Thinking Metaphysically and Historically

本文以歷史意識為基礎，結合社會意識和生命意識，試圖建構一套史學理論體系，目的是為了糾正現代史學矯枉過正、去玄又去虛的缺失。所謂「歷史的境界」，係指「人們具有的超越性心智」，同時含有「形上與歷史思維」。它並非一般社會科學或自然科學的「理論」、「定律」、「通則」或「模式」，也不是於1950至1960年代興起的「科際整合」。這種心智，如同分子生物學所說的「連結／樞紐」（hub），同時可以會通傳統的老莊、中庸、佛學思想以及近代學術中的馬克思主義、量子論的測不準原理和量子生物學之新說。

This article aims to establish a system of historical theory based on historical consciousness, integrating social consciousness and philosophies of life. The purpose is to salvage modern historiography from its total denial of metaphysics and overemphasis on scientific methods since the late nineteenth century. What I called “life minding” enacts humans’ transcendental mind and historical thinking. Life minding is neither the theories, laws, or models of the social sciences and the natural sciences nor the “interdisciplinary integration” approach that emerged in the Western academic communities in the 1950s and 1960s. This intelligent mind, like the idea of “hub” of Molecular biology, is an open space for communicating, exchanging, and reformulating both traditional thoughts, such as Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, and modern bodies of knowledge, such as Marxist notion of “the poverty of theory” and “the principle of uncertainty” of physics and quantum biology.