黄群（中国）
伴随着西方新科学与新理性哲学的发展，17世纪末至18世纪初的欧洲爆发了一场跨世纪的大论争——史称“古今之争”，这场堪称西方近代观念史上的标志性文化事件恰好处于文艺复兴与启蒙运动之间，有着极其深远的思想史意义。其导火索源于1687年法兰西院士佩罗一场贬低古希腊诗人荷马的演讲，随后三十多年里，围绕着荷马问题，进而是古今知识孰优的问题使得欧洲的知识人分裂成“崇古派”与“崇今派”两大阵营，展开了激烈的论争。在这场几乎撼动了整个欧洲知识界的大论争中，其核心表面是如何评价荷马的问题，而究其本质则是近代新科学知识与古典知识的尖锐对立。因此，通过考察身处“古今之争”中的意大利哲人维柯如何借荷马问题为论争提供解决之道，如何调和古今双方的分歧，乃至如何开启荷马问题的现代性等等，对于我们重新思考当代中国自身文化传统中的“古今之争”和“中西之争”、民族史诗传统的现代处境问题皆有着紧迫而重要的启示意义。
Rethinking the Homeric Question in “the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns”: Focusing on Vico
Huang, Qun (China)
With the development of the new sciences and new rational philosophy, a large scale trans-century debate which is known as “The quarrel between the ancients and modern” broke out in Europe from the late 17th century to early 18th century. Actually, the quarrel is a recurrent theme in the history of ideas. It was already being argued in the later days of the Roman Empire, but now it has been renewed and widened in this period. As an iconic cultural event, the quarrel just between the Renaissance and Enlightenment has a profound ideological significance. In 1687, a speech about diminishing Homer was given by Charles Perrault, an academician of the French academy light a fuse. In the following thirty years, many European intellectuals were split in two groups, namely "pro ancient group" and "pro modern group", concentrating on the "Homeric Question" and later the question of superiority between the knowledge of ancient times and that of modern times. There was a furious debate between the two sides which almost rocked the intelligentsia in all of Europe; it seemed to be about how to evaluate Homer, at least on the surface, yet it revealed the sharp conflict between the knowledge of new sciences and that of the Classical is the inner one. Therefore, by investigating how Giambattista Vico, a famous Italian philosopher, who was in “Ancients and Moderns”, provide the solution for the debate with "Homeric Questions" in New Science, how to reconcile different opinions from the two sides of ancient and modern, and how to open the modernity of the "Homeric Question," I will try to analyze the ins and outs of the question of “Ancients and Moderns.” Nevertheless, by means of close reading Vico’s works and rethinking the inner nature of “Ancients and Moderns,” we can find the urgent and great enlightening significant for reconsidering "the quarrel between China and western” of China’s modern cultural traditions, as well as the situation of ethnic epic traditions in modern times, and so on. Similarly, we must have a balance between the current and classical knowledge, which is our “common problems,” for not only Chinese scholars, but for all the humanity. As Levine said ten years ago, “The classics were largely abandoned in the schools and in public life where they had long reigned. The long quarrel between ancients and moderns was pretty much over.”(Levine, Joseph M.)
主讲人简介
黄群，笔名贺方婴，汉族，中国社会科学院民族文学研究所副研究员。中国人民大学文学博士，中山大学哲学系博士后。研究方向：西方古典诗学，古希腊史诗与神话研究，十八世纪的法国哲学，近两年专注于古希腊史诗的研究，曾先后在《世界哲学》、《国外文学》、《中国人民大学学报》、《现代哲学》、《思想战线》、《浙江学刊》、《求是学刊》、《基督教文化学刊》、《跨文化对话》、《学术月刊》、《哲学与文化》（台湾）等国内外重要核心期刊上发表相关论文；出版译著《榜样人生——卢梭〈忏悔录〉的政治哲学》。国际刊物《古典研究》（香港）执行编辑，近年来专注于“柏拉图与《荷马史诗》”的研究。
About the Speaker
Huang, Qun (pseudonym is “He, Fangying”), earned her Ph. D in 2007 from Renmin University of China on studies about the theory and history of Western philosophy in the 18th century. She engaged in the postdoctoral research of Classical Greek philosophy in the Department of Philosophy of Sun Yat-sen University (2007-2009); she is an assistant professor at Institute of Ethnic Literature (IEL), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where she has served as Research Fellow since 2009, and serves as the executive editor for The Chinese Journal of Classical Studies (H.K.).
