塞涅卡自然观念初探  

A Preliminary Study of Seneca’s Conception of Nature

作　　者：赵梦钰 ZHAO Meng-yu(Department of Philosophy,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China)

机构地区：[1]北京大学哲学系,北京100871

出　　处：《自然辩证法研究》2024年第11期41-45,共5页Studies in Dialectics of Nature

摘　　要：塞涅卡的《自然考问》是继亚里士多德《气象学》之后现存篇幅最长、最详细记述西方古代气象知识的著作。学界对晚期斯多亚学派学术复杂性的简化,以及对古罗马的自然世界图景的忽略影响了《自然考问》的研究。塞涅卡的自然探究既区别于古希腊的自然哲学传统,也区别于同时代普林尼百科全书式的博物探究。塞涅卡关于自然的认识具有一种有序的、系统的、极其广阔的宇宙视野。他将关于具体自然现象的局部解释纳入广阔的自然宇宙运作之中进行说明,强调从运用视觉感官认识自然表象转变为运用理性理解表象背后的宇宙运作法则。研究《自然考问》对于理解古罗马人的自然观、重构古罗马帝国的自然世界图景至关重要。Seneca's Natural Questions is the longest and most detailed work that records meteorological knowledge after Aristotle's Meteorology.The oversimplification of the academic complexity of Stoicism and the neglect of science and the natural conception of the ancient Roman world have influenced the study of Natural Questions.Seneca's natural inquiry distinguishes itself from the tradition of the Greek natural philosophy and Pliny's encyclopedic natural history writing.Seneca's understanding of nature has an organized,systematic,and comprehensive cosmic vision.He incorporates the specified explanations of natural phenomena into the operation of the universe,emphasizing the transition from using visual perception to recognize natural appearances to using reason to understand the cosmic laws behind appearances.The Study of Seneca's Natural Questions is crucial to the understanding of Romans'conception of nature and the reconstruction of the natural world in the Roman Empire.

关 键 词：古罗马的自然观 塞涅卡 《自然考问》 博物学 

分 类 号：N031[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学]