邵雍易学中的历史哲学

邵雍象数易学中有丰富的历史哲学思想,其中关于宇宙自然和人类社会历史发展规律的思想尤其有特色。邵雍认为,《周易》先天八卦、六十四卦圆图等所表征的卦气说,既说明了天地自然问春、夏、秋、冬四季的循环,也说明了人类社会中皇、帝、王、伯等历史发展阶段的更迭;自然界、人类社会的历史发展都体现出“阳在阴中阳逆行,阴在阳中阴逆行;阳在阳中,阴在阴中皆顺行”的阴阳消长规律,但人类社会的历史发展又不同于单纯的自然循环,在一定条件下,人类可以改变、创造自己的历史。

Historical philosophy conceived in SHAO Yong's Yi-ology

SHAO Yong's image-numberology conceives rich historical philosophical thought, in which his cos-mology and the thought on the law of the development of social history are more peculiar. SHAO holds that, the Gua-qi (correlating the trigrams or hexagrams to the seasonal points) theory illustrated by the Prenatal Eight-trigram Diagram and Sixty-four Hexagrams Round Diagram can not only manifest the cycle of the four seasons unfolding the natural world, but also expose the shifts between different historical periods. Both the natural and social historical development manifests a law as the waxing and waning between yin and yang. But historical development of human society differs from a pure natural cycle. Under certain conditions, human may change and create its history.