公共生活和几何构型:早期自然哲学视野中的希腊城邦时空观

Common Life and Geometry Forms:Ancient Greek Political Universe and Miletus Natural Philosophy

本文试图使向心几何形和正交网格这两种抽象形式重返历史,追溯二者在西方传统中随着社会公共性的建立,被塑成城市公共空间的初始情境。以雅典的城市广场和希波丹姆城市规划为研究对象,探讨在公元前6~前5世纪希腊城邦社会转型和早期自然哲学的背景下,向心几何形和正交网格作为城邦时空观的产生、转变及其在城市物质空间中的体现。意在阐述两种抽象形式在西方传统中诞生时的社会意识、知识背景和现实价值。

Centrally and orthogonal plan, as most common forms and intention in western culture, can be traced back to the 6-5＇h century B.C., when ancient Greek was giving birth to a common life by political reformation and fertilized by eastern wisdom to embody the first natural philosophy and scientific thought called Miletus natural philosophy. This article is going to illustrate the Agora of Athens and an equivalent in planned structure called ＂Hippodamia plan＂ to demonstrate the parallel between the Miletus intellectual tradition and contemporary political universe of equality and diversity, in order to understand the original situation of ideology, scientific thinking and politics in casting the two geometric forms.