本文的核心論題是中國哲學研究方法，本文企圖指出研究關懷的重要性，強調研究關懷的根本分歧將導致研究立場及其進路的不同，並進而衍生出歧異且難以交流的學術意見。研究關懷是更深層的研究動機，研究者能嘗試在彼此相異的研究關懷中找到某些共通點，從而藉此建構出公共性的研究關懷網絡及其分工整合機制。本文嘗試以「求真」做為公共的研究關懷，倡議中國哲學研究關懷得以從傳統「澄清文本意涵『是』什麼？」的模式中，進一步連結「做為普遍真理的中國哲學該『如何』在當代具體實踐？」的探究。

The main topic of the paper concerns “research methodologies in Chinese philosophy.” It looks like we are talking about more than one methodology. In this paper, I point out that the researcher’s concern plays an important role in academic judgment. Different researchers’ concerns lead to different stances and methods. And different stances and methods in turn lead to different conclusions. What I coin as “the researcher’s concern” might be provisionally understood as a sort of meta-motivation (something that motivates motives). I suggest that among these different concerns we may seek something common. This something common could then be the basis for a public network, which functions as an integrative mechanism encompassing and addressing those different concerns. This paper argues that “seeking truth” should be the common concern of research. It further argues that with this as the basis, the traditional mode of research, being concerned with the meaning of the text, should be integrated with the present concern with how to practice Chinese philosophy after modernity.