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題名 | The Image of the Plant and Self-Cultivation=植物意象與自我陶養 |
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作者 | 馮士瓦.伏拉歐; 劉千美; Flahault, François; Liu, Johanna; |
期刊 | 哲學與文化 |
出版日期 | 20091000 |
卷期 | 36:10=425 2009.10[民98.10] |
頁次 | 頁5-34 |
分類號 | 539.5 |
語文 | eng、chi |
關鍵詞 | 自我發展; 生命力; 民間傳奇; 虛心以待; 滿目生機; 西方思想; 中國思想; Self development; Life force; Popular tales; Openmindedness; Serendipity; Western thought; Chinese thought; |
英文摘要 | This paper is an anthropological investigation into the plant and its cultivation as an image of self-development. I examine the different ways this image is used in three domains: the Western tradition, popular tales and, briefly, in China. In Western thought, the metaphor of the plant was promoted by Plato in order to define the soul. Since the nineteenth century, it has been associated with the dictum ”Be yourself!” The self is supposed to be an innate kernel that we can develop through our own efforts. The image of the plant has quite different implications in popular tales: the plant represents life, which is transmitted from the parents to the child, from the dead to the living. The girl or boy who receives this gift must turn it to good account, and, to this end, has to interact with his environment in an outgoing and adequate way. There are obvious affinities between the implicit wisdom of tales and certain Chinese stories which illustrate the right way of ”feeding one's life”. For these stories also underline the need for adequate interaction with the world. Whereas Western thought contrasts with the oral tradition, Chinese literate culture seems to have kept in touch with popular stories. The English text is translated by Rodney Coward from the French original entitled ”L'image de la plante et la culture de soi”. |
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