"When discussing early ideas, academia typically views texts as a storage of ideas rather than a valuable object of study. This method not only idealizes the description of early intellectual history, but also draws artificial boundaries between textual tradition and philosophical tradition. This book shifts the focus of analysis, viewing texts as meaningful realities in the culture and social reality of the time, and further discussing the material conditions, writing culture, writing, meaning construction strategies, text groups, and the interrelationships between philosophical ideas of ancient world texts. By analyzing different strategies for constructing the meaning of the unearthed texts from Guodian Tomb No. 1, and by examining the philosophical thinking activities of the ancient world that can be judged based on material evidence, this book distinguishes between ""discourse based texts"" and context based texts. It is believed that a new change has emerged in the philosophical corpus of China at that time, developing a complex discourse form that hierarchically organizes thoughts and integrates reality. Philosophical texts no longer rely on the external cultural framework of texts and the tripartite relationship of meaning communication composed of texts, meaning intermediaries, and information receivers, but generate meaning internally, becoming independent philosophical realities. This type of independent philosophical text emerged simultaneously with the rise of manuscript culture during the Warring States period, thanks to the widespread use of bamboo slips as lightweight writing materials, as well as the promotion of manuscript culture exhibitions and increased information flow. They are both products of the emerging manuscript culture and promoters of it.
談論早期思想時，學界通常只是将文本視為思想的存储，而不是自具價值的研究對象。這種方法不僅會致對早期思想史的理想化描述，還在文本傳統與哲學傳統之問劃出了人為的界限。本書則轉變分析焦點，将文本視為當時文化、社會現實中的有意義的實進而討論古代世界文本的物質條件、寫本文化、書寫、意義建構策略、文本群體、哲學思想之間的相互關係。通過分析郭店一號墓出土文本意義建構的不同策略，通過分析可以根物質證據來加以判斷的古代世界的哲學思維活動，本書區分出了「基於論述的文本」基於語境的文本，兩種文本類型，認為時期中國的哲學生库出現了一種新變化，發展出了層次化地組思想、融合性地看待現實的複雜論述形式，哲學文本不再借重外在於文本的文化大框架不再依賴由文本、意義中介、資訊接收者組成的意義傳達的三方關係，而是自内生成意義，成為了獨立的哲學實。這類獨立的哲學文本，與戰國時期寫本文化的興起同時出现，既得益於竹簡被廣泛用作輕便的書寫材料，同時又受到寫本文化展以及相增加的资訊流的推動。它們既是新興的寫本文化的產物，又是寫本文化的促進者。