「反思判斷」與「一心開二門」－牟宗三先生所提哲學共同模型之再省察=Reflective Judgment and the Theory of ＂Twofold Existence created by One Mind＂: A Renewed Observation of Professor Mou Tsung-san's Idea of a Common Model for Philosophy
The Awakening of Faith has a ＂Twofold Existence created by One Mind＂ with a fairly realistic tone, which inspires Professor Mou Tsung-san taking it as a common model of philosophies as well as the ground for critical distinction for different philosophies. For Mou this model means to be model for ＂moral metaphysics or transcendent metaphysics.＂ In this paper, I argue that the teaching of ＂Twofold Existence created by One Mind＂ as a top-down creation from the transcendent Mind (free and infinite Mind) is different from the doctrine of ＂Two kinds of existence created by the operation of one Mind＂ as is shown in Twofold Existence with One Mind. If in return, I employ Mou's criteria in the critical examination of The Awakening of Faith and Kant, we could see that Kant's is a twofold existence created by two minds, and that of The Awakening of Faith is not one that created by the only true Mind (which is being trapped in ignorance). Buddhism is ultimately reduced at the end to a philosophy without reality, without Mind, without creating any level of being, without being one or two, and without production at all. In his third Critique, Kant proposes ＂reflective judgment＂ as a spiritual faculty that has real inter-communicative response with the world, with reflections on the immanent and transcendent, natural properties and ends, actual and ideal. This is a ＂twofold existence created by one Mind＂ from the point of view of teleology, but not from an ontological realism. In this paper, I venture further to raise a ＂twofold existence created by one Mind＂ in terms of a practical, self-realizing, and a non-teleological and freely in concurrence with the ultimate teleological theory.
