清华哲学Colloquium丨刘玮:Technē and Virtue in Aristotle

主讲:刘玮 (中国人民大学哲学院)

时间:2018年11月24日(周六)16-18点

地点:清华大学新斋324教室

刘玮,生于1980年,北京人。1999.9-2003.7于北京大学学习,获哲学系/中国经济研究中心双学士学位;2003.9-2006.7于清华大学学习,获哲学硕士学位;2006.8-2010.8于香港中文大学学习,获哲学博士学位。2010年12月加入人大哲学院伦理学教研室,目前是哲学院副教授、院长助理、政治哲学研究中心副主任。研究方向为古希腊哲学、西方伦理学史、西方政治哲学史。

Title:Technē and Virtue in Aristotle

Socrates and Plato (hereafter I will simply use “Plato” to mean the Socrates in Platonic dialogues) often uses technē as a model to illustrate virtue,1 but interestingly enough, Plato neither separates technē and virtue, nor explicitly identifies technē as a specific virtue in juxtaposition with courage, moderation, justice, piety, and wisdom. So in the end, we are more or less left in obscurity concerning the status of technē in Platonic dialogues.

When we turn to Aristotle, then, we see that he also uses technē to illustrate virtue, at least some important features of virtue, and he explicitly identifies technē as one of the intellectual virtues. But at the same time, he also takes pains to separate technē from all the other virtues. This identification and separation cause some obscurities and problems, and lead a number of commentators to doubt or deny that technē is qualified as a genuine virtue. In what follows I will discuss, first, how Aristotle uses the convenient model of technē to illustrate virtue, both ethical, and intellectual; second, why Aristotle identifies technē as a virtue; third, how Aristotle separates technē from other virtues, both ethical and intellectual, and the problems this separation seems to cause; and last of all, the possible solutions to the problems raised in section III.

清华哲学Colloquium

从2018年春季学期开始,本系西方哲学和逻辑方向的教师开办了一种全新的课程:论文讨论课(Colloquium)。

课程核心参与者:西方哲学和逻辑方向的教师,以及上述方向的在读本科生,硕士生和博士生。同时也非常欢迎其它方向乃至校外的老师和同学参加。

课程形式:目前尚不能在该课程上拿学分(将来会尝试纳入教学体制)。每次讨论课由一到两名同学或老师提前一周将一篇他(她)们自己写作的论文(包括学期论文,本科,硕士和博士毕业论文,以及成熟的学术论文)用邮件群发给参与的老师和同学,然后大家一同在讨论课上针对论文提出批评和修改意见。注意,课程的运作形式不仅仅是老师点评学生的论文,而是大家一起为论文作者提意见。提交的论文可用英语或汉语写作。

课程主要目的:集中训练并增强同学的学术论文写作能力以及相互进行学术批评的能力。