对于“哲学是什么?”的问題,可以想象各人会有各人的回答方式,只要在出品上面貼上自己的标签就行。至于哲学过去是怎样的,那就是另外一回事了。所謂哲学在历史上的地位和任务;它在一个卓越思想家的笔下是怎样一个性貭;它在某一学派或思潮里的发展;对立思潮之间的矛盾;过去千百年中哲学的性貭和作用是怎样变化的:这些是可以根据現有材料加以处理,并取得一定的滿意結果的。 As for the question of “what is philosophy?”, One can imagine that everyone will have their own way of answering, as long as they put their own label on the production line. As for what philosophy was in the past, that was another story. The position and mission of the so-called philosophy in history; what kind of character it possesses in the writings of a great thinker; its development in a certain school or trend of thought; the contradiction between opposing trends; the philosophical nature of the past century And how it works: These are things that can be handled on the basis of the available materials and have yielded some satisfactory results.