对周敦颐《通书》“两大突破”的考察

An Examination of the “Two Breakthroughs” in Zhou Dunyi’s Tongshu

摘要: 周敦颐在其著作《通书》中主要通过对《周易》和《中庸》的互训，以阐发他对宇宙本体论和心性论的理解。在《通书》中，周敦颐实现了“两大突破”即提升本体论地位和初步构建理学心性论，有力地回应了佛老对儒学主流价值观地位的挑战，为后世理学家思想发展“破暗”，并使宋明理学逐步形成奠定了基础。

Abstract: In his work Tongshu, Zhou Dunyi’s understanding of cosmological ontology and theory of mind was mainly developed through the mutual interpretation of the Zhouyi and the Zhongyong. In the Tongshu, Zhou Dunyi made two major breakthroughs, namely the elevation of ontology and the initial construction of the mind-nature theory of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism, which responded forcefully to the challenge posed by Buddhism to the mainstream values of Confucianism, “broke the darkness” for the development of the thinking of later scholars, and laid a foundation for the development of Neo Confucianism in the later generations and gradually formed Neo Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties.