哲学导论第一讲.pptx

哲学导论 第一讲 李猛 斯威夫特 《书之战》（1697） The Quarrel between the ancients and the moderns the terrible fight that happened on Friday last between the Ancient and Modern Books in the King’s library 现代阵营（1）骑兵 The Moderns were in very warm debates upon the choice of their leaders……  The difference was greatest among the horse, where every private trooper pretended to the chief command, from Tasso and Milton to Dryden and Wither.  The light-horse were commanded by Cowley and Despreaux. 现代阵营（2）弓箭手 the bowmen under their valiant leaders, Descartes, Gassendi, and Hobbes; whose strength was such that they could shoot their arrows beyond the atmosphere, never to fall down again, but turn, like that of Evander, into meteors; or, like the cannon-ball, into stars.  …… 古代阵营 The army of the Ancients was much fewer in number; Homer led the horse, and Pindar the light-horse; Euclid was chief engineer; Plato and Aristotle commanded the bowmen; Herodotus and Livy the foot; Hippocrates, the dragoons; the allies, led by Vossius and Temple, brought up the rear. 古代人更伟大 Here a solitary Ancient, squeezed up among a whole shelf of Moderns, offered fairly to dispute the case, and to prove by manifest reason that the priority was due to them from long possession, and in regard of their prudence, antiquity, and, above all, their great merits toward the Moderns.  现代人的反击（1）现代人更成熟 But these denied the premises, and seemed very much to wonder how the Ancients could pretend to insist upon their antiquity, when it was so plain (if they went to that) that the Moderns were much the more ancient of the two.  现代人的反击（2）：现代人的独创性 As for any obligations they owed to the Ancients, they renounced them all. “It is true,”said they,“we are informed some few of our party have been so mean as to borrow their subsistence from you, but the rest, infinitely the greater, were so far from stooping to so base an example, that there never passed, till this very hour, six words between us. For our horses were of our own breeding,