主题： Everyday Aesthetics: What Is It and Its Place in Confucian Ethics
主讲人： Andrew Lambert（纽约城市大学、助理教授）
时间：2017年6月21日下午1:00—2：00
地点：校本部C512室
主办：yl34511线路中心
分类：yl34511线路中心语言文化与世界文明系列讲座（十二）
内容简介：A developing field in Anglo-American philosophy is 'everyday aesthetics' – the idea that the study of aesthetics should not be confined merely to the study of art, but should include an examination of how aesthetic experience is generated in the course of everyday life. Enjoying a beautiful sunset, stroking a cat, and even taking part in a lively dinner party can all yield aesthetic experiences – understood as a range of sensible and emotional experiences such as tactile sensation (the cat's fur), or a feeling of peacefulness or repose, or delight. Furthermore, some scholars have suggested that aesthetic experience might have relevance to ethics and even serve as a source of practical guidance.
In the case of China, we find an interest in everyday aesthetics dating back to the time of Confucius and before. Ritual and music, so central to classical Confucian thought, clearly have an aesthetic dimension; they are also ethical ideas in those early texts, since they serve to regulate and produce everyday social life. In this lecture, I will explore how the classical Confucian tradition reveals novel ways of thinking about the role of aesthetic experience in everyday life, which can enrich contemporary thinking about the relationship between aesthetic experience and contemporary paradigms of moral conduct.
主讲人简介：Andrew Lambert，哲学博士，纽约城市大学史丹顿岛学院哲学系助理教授，京都大学、北京大学和香港中文大学访问学者，长期从事东方哲学的探索与研究，其研究领域包括当代伦理学理论和孔子思想的交叉点，特别是道德行为的理念与个人情感之间的关系。近年来，发表多篇有关中国古代哲学思想研究的论文。
主题： The Shield and the Bow: Arms and Authority in the Illiad and the Odyssey
主讲人： Aara Suksi（西安大略大学、副教授）
时间：2017年6月21日下午2：00—3：00
地点：校本部C512室
主办：yl34511线路中心
分类：yl34511线路中心语言文化与世界文明系列讲座（十三 ）
内容简介：In ancient Greek culture violent revenge, as a form of divine justice, is in itself unavoidably transgressive, and, paradoxically, always risks divine punishment in turn. The great Greek Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, feature the heroes Achilles and Odysseus, who are often defined in contrast to one another, as very different heroic types. This paper focuses not on their differences, but on a series of parallels that can be drawn between them specifically as violent users of weapons.
The Homeric hero demonstrates his excellence and wins his glory by performing acts of extreme violence. But this heroic ideal is problematic; even though the hero's violence enacts a revenge that is presented as a form of justice sanctioned by the gods, this violence is also profoundly morally ambivalent, and paradoxically risks divine punishment. While he enacts violent revenge, the hero's connection to his own humanity is precariously in question. Culture in general tends to mediate such transitional crises with ritualized objects and sequences of actions. In the Homeric epics in particular, certain narrative strategies worked to authorize the hero's violence by setting it apart within a poetically ritualized sequence. For example, the hero acquires unique arms or armour that identify him as especially marked by divine fate as authorized to exact violent revenge. This paper identifies the ritualized actions and objects in the Homeric hero's transitional immersion into the violence of revenge, presenting ten parallels between Achilles and Odysseus as violent wielders of unique arms.
主讲人简介：Aara Suksi，西安大略大学古典学系副教授，主要研究领域包括：希腊文学与文化、古希腊语言、古希腊神话和古希腊的性别研究。近年来发表的相关论文有：
Edited (With Jeremy Rossiter) The Seasons: Greek and Roman Perspectives, a special issue of Mouseion (XLVII - Series III, Vol. 3, 2003)
Introduction (with Jeremy Rossiter) to The Seasons: Greek and Roman Perspectives, a special issue of Mouseion (XLVII - Series III, Vol. 3, 2003) 233-235.
"The Poet at Colonus: Nightingales in Sophocles", Mnemosyne 54, 2001, 646-658. (Netherlands).
"Silence in Sophocles", in Siegfried Jaekel and Asko Timonen, eds. The Language of Silence. Turku, Finland, 2001. 31-40.
"An Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid: Online Sampler" with John Bradley, Willard McCarty and Burton Wright. 1999-present.
