查看更多>>摘要:In 1711,François Noël s.j.(1651-1729)published in Pragua two books related to Chinese philosophy,the Philosophia Sinica—a systematic presentation of Confucianism according to an Aristotelian framework divided into three treatises-and the Sinensis Imperii libri classici sex-a translation of the six Confucian Classics In these two books,François Noël,who spent more than fifteen years in China,exemplifies how a European missionary has been transformed by reading Confucian Classics and their commentaries.Although his writings were caught up in the Rites controversy,German philosophers like Christian Wolff were in contact with them and used them in a debate where the autonomy of rationality in the field of ethics was at stake.Even if Noël's assumptions and hermeneutical methods are not academically valid anymore,his testimony shows that the engagement of Confucian classics can change one's framework,especially at a practical level.Noël's works are also an invitation to reconsider the modern split between systematic philosophy and philosophy as a practice,an opinion already formulated in the works of Pierre Hadot.In that sense,Noël's attempt to bridge Aristotle with Confucius is a witness of a larger movement of interweaving symbolic tools belonging to different traditions in order to answer human existence issues.