自20世纪80年代"少数民族哲学"提出以来,中国哲学内部就存在传统哲学与少数民族哲学二种哲学形态与哲学观念的分歧。若传统哲学是文字的、抽象的理论形态,属于"性相不同"的超越哲学观,那么少数民族哲学则是生活的、文化的本然形态,属于"性相不二"的普遍哲学观。本文以"哲学即悟道"为立足点,通过中国哲学史言意本末、性相体用诸论的考察,认为整个中国古代哲学是以中道圆融为特质的"意象哲学"。在意象哲学中,本体的超越性与普遍性浑融一体、非一非异,所谓"性相圆融"、"体用一源"。在少数民族哲学中,意象哲学体现为:以核心观念为"体",民族文化为"用",民族精神则为兼体用之"道",此即所谓"一有无"而"兼体用"。依非一非异思维方式加以展开,由此便形成"核心观念——民族精神——民族文化"这一"即三即一"的"意象言"结构,从而勾画出以民族精神为核心的少数民族哲学本原论。
Since the proposal of "the ethnic minority philosophy" in the 1980s, the domestic philosophers have had controversies overTthe philosophical patterns and concepts concerning the traditional philosophy and the ethnic minority philosophy. If the former is a literal and abstract expression in a theoretical form, it is a philosophical concept of transcendence with the appearance different from its nature, while the latter is life-based, culture-oriented in its original form, a philosophical concept of universality with the unity of the appearance and its nature. Based on the idea of "philosophy is to know the truth", this paper gives a summary review of the basic concepts of Chinese philosophy and concludes that the whole Chinese philosophy is a philosophy of image with the feature of madhyamamarga. The philosophy of image is characteristic of the integration of the ontological transcendence and universality as well as the integration of the appearance and its nature. The philosophy of image in connection with the ethnic minority philosophy takes the core concept as the essence and the ethnic culture as its manifestation, thus both forming a structure of trinity in the combination of the core concept and the national spirit plus the national culture and constructing the ontological theory of the ethnic minority philosophy with the national spirit as its core.