王弼的玄学在中国思想史上具有重要的地位, 但反思王弼玄学的特点及其在思想史上的命运, 却提出了中国哲学必然面临的一个严峻问题: 完全抽象的思辨, 是否符合中国传统思想中特具的人文关怀色彩?或者说, 过分追求思想言说形式的普遍有效性, 是否会伤害思想内容的具体落实性?实际上, 如何从普遍意义上重释孔子所身体力行的儒家精神, 而又能在现实层面上具体落实儒家的精神, 成为了王弼带给儒士解释及实践儒家理想的双重困惑。

Wang Bi's mysterious metaphysical learning plays an indispensable role in the history of Chinese thoughts.When its characteristics and fate in the intellectual history are reconsidered, a serious problem has to be put forward for Chinese philosophy: whether a sort of completely abstract speculation is adaptive to the climate of humanistic concerns in the traditional Chinese thinking or not.In other words, whether an excessive pursuit of universal validity of thinking expressions by words will hurt concrete fulfillments of the thinking content?Wang Bi, indeed, brings about a double perplexity to Confucians who have to reinterpret in a universal sense the Confucianist spirit earnestly advocated and practiced by Confucius on the one hand, and specifically carry out the spirit in reality on the other hand, in their explaining and practicing Confucian ideals.