论老子哲学思想与当代全球性哲学问题                                                            董京泉

现在人们通常说的当代全球性问题都属于形而下的实际问题；从哲学的或形而上的层面看，大体可归纳为以下几个问题：在经济高速发展的情况下，如何处理人与自然的关系；在科学理性与价值理性严重失衡的情况下，如何纠正科学主义的偏颇；在市场经济条件下，如何处理个体与群体以及个体之间的关系；在生活节奏越来越快的情况下，如何缓解人们心理上的焦虑；在物欲横流的情况下，如何重建人们的价值世界或意义世界。老子是站在作为天地万物及社会人生的形而上的存在本体和价值本体的“道”的高度，俯瞰整个宇宙和全人类的，所以他对自然界、人类社会和人的身心问题的观察和思考，必然具有对于时空的超越性。因此，老子哲学思想对于我们研究解决当代全球性哲学问题，能够提供新的思路和重要思想资源。

A Discussion of Laozi’s Philosophical Thought and Philosophical Questions in Contemporary World  Dong Jingquan

   The “current global questions” that people often say all belong to the physical and practical issues. In a philosophical or metaphysical perspective, those can be generally reduced to the following questions: under rapid economic development, how to deal with the relation between human being and nature; under the severe imbalance between the scientific rationality and value rationality, how to redress the bias of scientism; under the condition of market economy, how to deal with the relationship between the group and the inpidual as well as the interinpidual relationship; with the pace of life becoming more and more fast, how to relieve people’s anxiety; and in an age of materialism, how to reconstruct the human world of value or significance. As Laozi overlooked the whole universe and human being from the height of “Tao”, which is the metaphysical noumenon of existence and value to the universe and social life, his observation and reflection on the nature, the human society, as well as human mind and body must embody transcendency of time and space. Therefore, his philosophical thought can provide new approach and thinking resource for us to study and solve philosophical questions in contemporary world.