Kilka uwag na temat idei prawdy w klasycznych Chinach. Część pierwsza: Rozważania metodyczno-metodologiczne
A Few Remarks upon the Idea of Truth in Classical China. Part One: Reflections on Method and Methodology

Summary/Abstract: In the present article, the author describes the idea of truth in classical China in the comparative perspective. The Western and Chinese cultures differ in their attitudes towards truth: while the former’s understanding of the category of truth is self-evident – in the latter, truth almost seems not to occur whatsoever. The author attempts first to (in the article’s part one) work out the methodical and methodological horizon to look at the idea of truth in classical China, then (part two), on the example of the Analects of Confucius – to introduce the Confucian ideal of junzi, the noble people as the dao-truth bearers.The first, methodical and methodological, part of the article contains both philosophical problems (eg. the difference between a notion and an idea / theory and attitude, the historicity of understanding as the hermeneutic rule, the notion of authentic existence as the primary hermeneutic rule, the triple dimension of the notion of truth in the Western philosophical tradition as the secondary hermeneutic rule, the concept of truth in hermeneutics as the most universal heuristic rule) – as well as the problems of sinology: the nature of the classical Chinese according to the Chinese tradition and sinologists, the problem of the lexical candidates of the questions concerning truth in classical China, selected texts to analyse and convey the idea of truth in classical China and the notion of classical China. All these methodical and methodological steps serve to create a bridge between two different ideas of truth that came into being – one in the West and one in China.

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