题目：意识与语言：伐致诃利对再认识派的影响

主讲人：马尔科·费兰特（奥地利科学院研究员）

时间：2021年11月12日19:00–21:00（北京时间）

形式：ZOOM线上会议

会议号：847 7090 2914

讲座摘要

长久以来，人们普遍认为，在哲学家、语法学家伐致诃利（Bhartṛhari，公元5世纪）的思想和再认识派传统的思想家们（苏摩喜Somānanda、青莲天Utpaladeva和新护Abhinavagupta，公元10至11世纪）之间存在着关联。例如，他们对现实都持非二元论的观点，也都强调语言在人们参与世界的过程中所起到的作用。在本次讲座中，我将特别聚焦于再认识派思想家取自伐致诃利的两个观念，以此来重审双方的密切关系。无论是对于再认识派概念框架的发展，还是对于他们与佛教徒的争论，这些想法都至关重要。第一个观念是，一个认识不能作为另一个认识的对象，否则它就将不再作为认识，而是成为知识的内容。第二个观念是，意识被归结为一种综合“赤裸”认识的概念活动，离开了它就无法获得知识。

主讲人简介

马尔科·费兰特是古代印度哲学的专家。他曾是牛津大学比较哲学的博古睿学者，目前在维也纳的奥地利科学院从事研究工作。其最新著作《印度视角下的意识、语言与自我：再认识派的语言思想和心灵哲学》已于2020年由劳特利奇出版社出版。机构个人主页：https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/team/forschung/ferrante-marco

Lecture Series: Language and Reality in Ancient India (2)

Title: “Consciousness and Language: Bhartṛhari’s Impact on the Pratyabhijñā”

Speaker: Marco Ferrante (Research Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Time: Friday, 12th November, 2021   19:00–21:00(CST) / 12:00–14:00(CET)

Online Platform: Zoom

Meeting ID: 847 7090 2914

Abstract

The relevance of the thought of the philosopher and grammarian Bhartṛhari (5^th c. CE) for the thinkers belonging to the Pratyabhijñā’s tradition (Somānanda, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, 10^th – 11^th c. CE) has long been acknowledged. For instance, both argued for a nondualistic view of reality and stressed the role of language in humans’ engagement with the world. In this talk I will review the affinities between the two sides with a particular focus on two  notions the Pratyabhijñā thinkers drew from Bhartṛhari. These ideas were critical to the development of the school’s conceptual framework, as well as to their polemics with the Buddhists. The first notion is that a cognition cannot be the object of another cognition, otherwise it would cease to be what is and would become itself a content of knowledge. The second notion is that consciousness boils down to a conceptual activity that synthesizes ‘bare’ cognitions, an activity without which no knowledge can be obtained.

Bio

Marco Ferrante is a specialist in the philosophical traditions of premodern India. He is currently conducting research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He was Berggruen Fellow in Comparative philosophy at the University of Oxford. His most recent work is the book Indian Perspective on Consciousness, Language and Self: The School of Recognition on Linguistics and Philosophy of Mind, published by Routledge in 2020.

海报设计：顾逸凡

供稿：赵悠、顾逸凡

该系列讲座由国家社科基金青年项目（19CZX036）支持