当我们从文化的视角放眼全球之际,对本土文化的认同与对未来发展方向的选择成为首要问题。什么是中华文明的优良传统?什么是当今世界上的先进文化?只有把这些放到人类文明发展的大背景下,放到全球多元文化的大视野中,才能得出结论。回首人类文明的产生与交往历史,东西方文化的差异与冲突不容回避。长期以来,人们热衷于讨论中西文化孰优孰劣,究竟谁是先进或落后,但对其各自的渊源与特征却不甚明了,对文化差异与冲突的根本性质也缺乏认识。因此,我们更需要进行一番扎实的追本溯源工作,才能拥有自己的发言权。
When we view the world from the angle of culture, what come first are the problems of the self-identity of local culture and where it goes next. What is the good tradition of Chinese culture? What is the advanced culture in the present world? There is no way to get to the final conclusion but to put them into the background of the development of human culture and to settle them in the worldwide multicultural field. Retrospecting the history of the birth and communication of human civilization, there is no chance to avoid the differences and conflicts between western culture and eastern culture. People have discussed about them for a long time concerning which is better or more advanced. However, we neither have a clear understanding of their origins and features, nor know very well the essential characters of those differences and conflicts. Thus, before we present our opinions, we need to do the tracing source work deeper and more aborative.