庄子和德谟克利特是中西方哲学史上两位有影响的哲学家。庄子的“命”范畴在很大程度上和德谟克利特的“必然”范畴一致。而命与必然的相异之处 ,又恰好凸显了中国哲学以“情感”为本质特征与西方哲学以“理性”为精神追求的视野分界 ,体现了世界文化的共通性与相异互补性的双重内涵 Chuang Tzu and Democritus are two influential philosophers in the history of Chinese and western philosophy. Zhuangzi’s “life” category is largely consistent with Democritus’s “necessary” category. However, the difference between life and necessity also just shows the visual field demarcation that Chinese philosophy takes the essence of “emotion” as the essence and the “rational” as the spiritual pursuit in western philosophy, which reflects the commonalities and different complementarities of world culture Double meaning