主题：日常美学：何谓日常美学以及其在儒家伦理学中的地位

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：外国语学院

分类：外国语学院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。