谢林"Potenz"概念探源

• 作 者: 赵鹏
• 出 处: 世界哲学
• 发表日期: 2005年02期
• 关键词: 谢林 Potenz 强力 形而上学 基督教

Potenz是谢林哲学的标志性概念。在以往的相关研究中 ,我们大多是从“幂”这个数学含义出发来理解它的。而本文则通过词源和思想史方面的考察 ,指出这个概念的思想根源更多地是在犹太 -基督教传统中的“创造”观念里。也就是说 ,Potenz概念的基本含义其实是“ (创造 )力” ,而不是单纯数学形式意义上的“幂”。

Potenz is a hallmark of Schelling’s philosophy. In the past related researches, we mostly understood it from the mathematical meaning of “power”. This essay, based on the etymological and intellectual history, points out that the ideological roots of this concept are more in the concept of “creation” in the Jewish-Christian tradition. That is to say, the basic meaning of Potenz’s concept is actually “(creating) power,” not the “power” in the purely mathematical form.