The Ontological Argument That Buddhism and Confucianism Are Not Barriers to Each Other in the Middle Way

存在论上对佛教和儒家两种中道不相障碍的论证

There have been many “historical” studies on the compatibility between Buddhism and Confucianism's Middle Way, but there are relatively few ontological arguments based on rational deduction using phenomenological methods. Therefore, this article uses phenomenological methods to delve into the fundamentals and provides logical arguments for the compatibility between Buddhism's Middle Way view based on emptiness and Confucianism's Middle Way view based on benevolence and righteousness in ontology. At the same time, in a deeper exploration of the ontology of existence and the existence of existence, it is necessary to confirm the more subtle and specific categories of comparison between the two middle ways, namely “the being of Dasein” and “the existence of Dasein”. At the same time, the clear confirmation of these categories is based on the purpose based comparison method in ontology. Finally, in terms of grasping the purpose of the two views on the Middle Way, we will compare them and explain how they grasp the existence of the Being to achieve the survival of the Being. Through the manifestation of this logical path, we can illustrate that although the two views on the Middle Way have different purposes, their fundamental interests are the same, so they are fundamentally not opposed.

对佛教与儒家的中道不相障碍的研究已然有了很多“历史学”的研究，而直就现象学的方法以理性演绎进行存在论上的论证则较少，文章出于此以现象学的方法就直究根柢的，在存在论上提供了佛教以空性为宗旨的中道观和儒家以仁义为宗旨的中道观的不相障碍的逻辑论证。同时，在对存在论内含的存在者与生存之存在论的更深密的探究，确认对两种中道更细微的、具体的比较的范畴，即“存在者的存在”与“存在者的生存”，同时以此种范畴的明确确认立根在存在论上的以宗旨为比较的比较方式。最后在就对两种中道观的宗旨的把握上比较二者，分别说明二者以何种对存在者之存在的把握而达到存在者之生存，以此种理路的彰显来说明，两种中道观虽有不同宗旨但根本旨趣相同，因此两种中道观在根本上不相障碍。