实事求是是道德:践行中国史学的伦理责任

IF 1.1 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Q. Edward Wang
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近年来,人们一直在努力重新评价中国的历史思想和写作传统。本文试图推进这些努力,并对传统中国历史写作的特点提出新的理解。文章认为,在实践层面上,中国传统史学家与世界其他地方的史学家一样,在历史写作中非常关注事实的确立和传播。他们将评论与叙述分开,以实践后者的 "直书",就是一个很好的例子,而且在帝制中国的漫长岁月中,这已演变成一种神圣的传统。在理论层面上,中国史学家也有意识地探索如何使历史的真实性与他们所认为的、并力图在他们的时代承担的伦理责任相协调。这种探索并没有停留在对过去的人物和事件的 "褒贬 "层面。相反,他们的实践相当于一种努力,以宋代(960-1279 年)的历史实践为缩影,寻求历史道德的形而上学,或指导人类社会的内在和总体原则。
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TRUTHFUL IS MORAL: PRACTICING ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN CHINESE HISTORIOGRAPHY

In recent years, efforts have been made to reevaluate the tradition of Chinese historical thought and writing. This article seeks to further these efforts and offer a new understanding of the characteristics of historical writing in traditional China. It argues that, at the level of practice, traditional Chinese historians, like their counterparts in the rest of the world, were deeply concerned with establishing and communicating facts in historical writing. Their separation of commentary and narrative in order to practice “straight writing” of the latter is a telling example, one that evolved into an enshrined tradition over the long span of imperial China. At the theoretical level, Chinese historians also consciously explored the ways in which truthfulness in history could be reconciled with the ethical responsibilities they perceived and sought to assume in and for their time. This quest did not stop at the level of “praise and blame” for past personalities and events. Rather, their practice amounted to an effort, epitomized by the historical practice of the Song period (960–1279), to search for the metaphysics of historical morality, or the immanent and overarching principles that guide human society.

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History and Theory
History and Theory Multiple-
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2.00
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期刊介绍: History and Theory leads the way in exploring the nature of history. Prominent international thinkers contribute their reflections in the following areas: critical philosophy of history, speculative philosophy of history, historiography, history of historiography, historical methodology, critical theory, and time and culture. Related disciplines are also covered within the journal, including interactions between history and the natural and social sciences, the humanities, and psychology.
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