司马光的易学历史观探析

本文主要探讨司马光的史学与其经学之一的易学之间的关系。司马光通过其易学形式表达了独具特色的历史观。他提出易道的观念,认为凡宇宙之间皆易,易就是阴阳之变、五行之化,这就对自然和人类历史发展的普遍性原则作出了界定;又提出圣人作《易》,为数亦为义,义急、数亦急,以义与数作为历史发展普遍性原则的重要内容;并认为《易》是对易道的表征,《易》有见微而知彰、原始而知终的史学功能;在探讨自然和人类历史存在的形式时,司马光还提出阳非阴不成,阴非阳不生,阴阳之道表里相承的观点,为人类社会历史发展揭示了其应有的价值目标和方向。

Sima Guang's View of History as Seen from His Study of the Yi

This paper mainly discusses the relationship between Sima Guang's study of history and his study of the Yi,one of the traditional Confucian classics.Sima Guang brought his distinguished historical ideas forward in terms of the Yi.He proposed the concept of the Tao of the Yi, the way of change or evolution.He thought that the whole universe is full of the Yi and the Yi is the change of the Yin and the Yang and the evolution of the Five Elements.Thus he established the universal principle of the development o...