桓谭的学术立场与政治个性

桓谭从古文经的学术立场出发,引申出对谶纬符命之学的思想批判,并以此选择对现实政治的态度。从他与王莽的合作到分裂,以至利用《新论》对王莽进行批判,他在东汉前期对光武帝"天下事以图谶决之"的公然反对,都可以看出他是从古文经立场和对谶纬符命之学的否定出发的,学术立场决定了他的政治个性。在和同时代其他经学大家刘歆、贾逵等人的比较中,桓谭对学术真理的追求和持守,显得特别突出。在皇权专制时代,能不屈服于专制君主的淫威,始终如一地坚守学术立场,是桓谭最可宝贵的品格。

HUAN Tan's Academic Stance and Political Personality

From the academic perspective of research on the Old Text Confucian Classics, HUAN Tan made a criticism of the theology on the basis of prophecy, interpretation, images and tokens, and showed his choice on politics. He cooperated at first but ruptured with WANG Mang, and he criticized WANG Mang in his Xin LunCNexv-Comments).In the early period of the Eastern Han Dynasty(25-20), HUAN Tan publicly objected to the Emperor Guangwu's concept that 'all events can be predicted by the prophecy,interpretation,and image and token reading'. All he did originated from his academic perspective and negative attitude to the theology on the basis of prophecy, interpretation, images and tokens. The academic stance decided his political personalities.Compared with other scholars of his times such as LIU Xin and JIA Kui,HUAN Tan pursued and persisted the academic truth, which was rare at that time. In the age dominated by imperial right, HUAN Tan kept his academic stance unremittedly even under the powers of the autocrat,which proves his worshipful'personality.