A Comment On The Interpretation Of Lun Yu From The Comparative Perspective

It is well known to all that The Analects is the major source of theConfucianists, or even the whole Chinese traditional culture. The interpretationof The Analects has embodied the positive understanding of the classics. Sincethe Age of Discovery, the communication of culture among differentnationalities has become more and more active. The history of the Sinology hasrevealed that the priests and scholars keep up paying attention to theinterpretation of The Analects.For example, Fingarette,in his famous representative work namedConfucius:The Secular as Sacred, attempts to contract the Confucianists and thecontemporary western philosophy. He considers that the interpretation of TheAnalects should base on the ordinary language analysis. However, Schwartzprobes into The Analects from the angle of history. Different from the westernscholars, Chinese traditional scholars have the aid of exegesis and doctrine tostudy the classics. One of the fine examples is The Variorum of The Analects, written by Zhu Xi.When we study the interpretation of The Analects，we should not onlyrealize the contrasts of the method，either the Chinese scholar or the western，but also be conscious of the differences between the Chinese scholar and thewestern from the comparative perspective. With the help of the interculturalanalysis of the methodology，we are able to seek various sides of the classicalinterpretation, such as The Analects and the Confucianists，even the wholeChinese traditional culture.