摘要
《隐身人》通过描述格里芬的意志从自由意志到非理性意志的发展过程,以及与肯普的理性意志的博弈,向人们讲述了人应该如何利用科学的伦理故事。支配格里芬发明隐身术的意志起初表现为自由意志,他希望通过隐身术获得意志的最大自由,接着没有理性约束的自由意志不断扩展,逐步转化为从偷人钱财到有意伤人、再到有意杀人直至肆意杀人的非理性意志,最后博弈失败。格里芬对隐身术的发明和利用是非理性的,也是违背伦理的,隐身术作为非理性意志的载体起到了推波助澜的作用。格里芬的被杀与肯普的被救折射出小说传递出的威尔斯关于人应该如何利用科学的伦理表达:人类利用科学,应该符合理性,符合伦理。任何企图借助科学僭越伦理的尝试都终将失败。人类毕竟已经步入科学时代,格里芬的选择足以让我们引以为戒,合乎伦理地发展和利用科学才是人类未来的终极救赎。
The Invisible Man is an ethical story about how human should utilize science through the developing process of Griffin＇s free will to irrational will, then fighting with Kemp＇s rational will. Griffin＇s original will of inventing invisibility is free will, because he wishes to have greatest freedom of will through invisibility. Without rational limitation the free will becomes stronger and stronger, and turns into irrational wills which are from stealing to hurting others, to killing others willingly, and to killing others without restraint. The fighting ends up with the failure of Griffin＇s irrational will. Griffin＇s inventing and utilizing invisibility is irrational and against ethic. As a carder of irrational will the invisibility has helped him. Griffin＇s being killed and Kemp＇s being saved reflect Wells＇ ethical expression in the novel about how human should utilize science： human should utilize science ethically and rationally. Everyone who seeks to arrogate ethic with the help of science is doomed to failure. With human beings entering the scientific age, Griffin＇s selection is enough for us to take warning. Developing and utilizing science ethically is the ultimate salvation for human beings.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第3期80-86,共7页
Foreign Literature Studies
基金
2014年度广西高校科研项目【项目批号:YB2014029】
广西大学科研基金资助项目【项目批号:XGS13002】的阶段性成果
教育部高等学校青年骨干教师国内访问学者项目经费资助
