講者 Speaker
Tim Ingold (Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK)
講題 Title
MANIFESTO FOR A NEW HUMANISM
摘要 Abstract
For the past three centuries, the western world has been driven by a doctrine of progress, first articulated by philosophers of the European Enlightenment, according to which the destiny of humanity is to exercise dominion over the rest of creation. This doctrine has underwritten developments in science and technology which have improved the lives of millions. They have nevertheless come at the cost of mounting social injustice and environmental degradation. Today, these costs are no longer sustainable. Contemporary critics call for an alternative, post-humanist settlement that would topple humanity from its pedestal at the peak of creation and re-embed human being in a world of more than humans, thus collapsing the distinctions between human and nonhuman, and between society and nature. However, this move, in absolving humans of responsibility for the life around them, would leave coming generations with no role to play in future planetary flourishing. I argue instead that humans are indeed exceptional among living beings, thanks to a narrative capacity to weave their own life histories with the stories of other beings into an ongoing story for the world. This capacity confers on humans a responsibility towards others that is truly exceptional. But it is a responsibility they can only exercise from a position at the heart of the lifeworld itself. This is anthropocentrism in the strict sense. Acknowledging the centrality of humans within a world of living beings, rather than their separation from it, is fundamental to what I propose as a new humanism, committed to coexistence rather than domination, and sustainability rather than progress. For the new humanist, humans are not beings but becomings, continually giving birth to themselves and one another within the crucible of a world that, as the word ‘nature’ suggests, is the mother of all things.
時間 Time
2024年10月7日（週一）10:00~12:00
10:00~12:00 Monday, October 7, 2024
地點 Venue
中央研究院民族學研究所第一會議室（本所舊館3樓323室）
1st Conference Room, 3F, The Old Wing, Inst. of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
主辦單位 Organizer
中央研究院民族學研究所
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
連繫人 Contact Persons
林芬安小姐 02-2652-3303 falin@gate.sinica.edu.tw
林音秀小姐 02-2652-3484 world66@gate.sinica.edu.tw
備註 Note
全程以英文進行 Language in English