术语“理气”的详细信息

英译术语:

principle and material force

汉语语境:

理气是新儒家思想的重要范畴，宋朝的张载首次将二者联系起来进行论述。他认为理是气运行所依据的法则。相反，程氏兄弟和朱熹则认为理先于气，但二者决不可分，没有气则理变得不具体、不确定，没有理则气失去了运行的依据。

英语语境:

Both principle and material force are important philosophical categories of Neo-Confucianism. Zhang Zai of the Song Dynasty was the first to discuss them together. He regarded principle as the law according to which material force operates. The Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi, on the contrary, maintained that principle is prior to material forcet but they are never separate and that without material force principle would be neither concrete nor definite and without principle there would be no law by which material force could operate.