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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 李鸥教授 (英文系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0272 |
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摘要This essay discusses Keats's affinity with Pyrrhonian scepticism as recorded by Sextus Empiricus in Outlines of Scepticism in the following aspects: the investigative, non-dogmatic attitude towards the truth, the ability to set out oppositions and to realise the equipollence in opposed accounts of the truth, suspension of judgement, and the goal of tranquility. It also speculates on the implication of the common medical background Sextus and Keats shared by linking the ethical values of ancient scepticism to the humanitarian concerns of medicine that might have shaped Keats's scepticism. Although the connection between Keats, Sextus, and medicine is speculative, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy carefully studied by Keats mentions Sextus, from which we can assume Keats's exposure to Sextan scepticism. The Renaissance revival of Pyrrhonian scepticism provides us with stronger evidence about its indirect influence on Keats through Montaigne and Shakespeare as its important inheritors.
着者Ou L
期刊名称Romanticism
出版年份2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/016
月份1
日期1
卷号22
期次2
出版社EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS
页次167 - 176
国际标準期刊号1354-991X
电子国际标準期刊号175http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0-http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/0192
语言英式英语
关键词equipollence; Keats; medicine; Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonian scepticism; suspension; tranquility
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