论霍布斯的好奇概念及其意义

Thomas Hobbes’Concept of Curiosity and Its Significance

霍布斯的好奇概念,无论就其在思想史上地位还是对霍布斯自身思想演变而言,都具有非同寻常的意义。霍布斯一方面淡化了好奇与亚里士多德诧异概念的联系,另一方面无视了基督教传统关于好奇概念与哲学知识的道德判断。将其好奇概念重新置入霍布斯刻意淡化的远近背景之中,突出霍布斯好奇概念的哲学意义与其宗教意义之间的关联,揭示霍布斯好奇概念的现代革新意义,说明好奇在霍布斯自身思想中的关键地位,方能更加透彻地理解霍布斯的好奇概念及其意义。

Thomas Hobbes’ concept of curiosity plays a significant role in the development of his own thought as well as in the history of the idea of curiosity. Hobbes downplays the conceptual relation of curiosity to the Aristotelian concept of wonder,and ignores the moral judgement of the Christian tradition against curiosity. In order to fully understand Hobbes’ concept of curiosity and its significance,it is necessary to consider this concept in a broad context,to analyze the philosophical meaning and the religious meaning of curiosity in the works of Hobbes,and to demonstrate the modern connotation of curiosity in Hobbes and its significance in order to understand Hobbes’ thought as a whole.