The Principles for the Knowledge System Construction of Chinese Hermeneutics
Chinese hermeneutics has been developed from a scholarly concept into an innovative thought sys-tem with the effort of the Chinese linguistic community.Reviewing the innovative practice of Chinese her-meneutics construction,we find four academic approaches should be identified:(1)constructing Chinese hermeneutics towards methodological hermeneutics;(2)constructing Chinese hermeneutics towards herme-neutic philosophy;(3)constructing Chinese hermeneutics towards"philosophical hermeneutics";(4)con-structing Chinese hermeneutics in accordance with the requirements of ethical turn of contemporary herme-neutics.No matter which academic approach is used to construct Chinese hermeneutics,the innovative theo-retical construction work must meet the following requirements:first,the theoretical construction must be based on the modern transformation of ancient Chinese classical hermeneutic resources;second,it must meet the modern requirements of hermeneutics;third,it must embody the disciplinary characteristics of hermeneutics.In addition,the knowledge system construction of the new theory must also be based on the distinction between"classical interpretation"and"classical hermeneutics","annotation"and"hermeneu-tics".Only by constructing a theory called"Chinese classical hermeneutics",with mutual understanding as its final aim and with"philosophical hermeneutics"as a reference mirror,can we get a new theory that fully expresses the essence of our traditional Chinese hermeneutics.