系列：重要文物
对自满及其在学院古典文学衰落中的作用的批判性反思。
为了回应哲学家西蒙·布莱克本（Simon Blackburn）将自满描述为妨碍大学学习的一种恶习，约翰·T·汉密尔顿（John T.Hamilton）研究了古典文学中自满的历史及其对当代的影响。
古希腊和罗马的学科、哲学和文学曾被视为学习的基础，其他一切都是从它们衍生出来的。汉密尔顿研究了这种起源于古典传统黄金时代的优越性模式与当前数学和自然科学霸权的共同点。他考虑了经典的定性方法如何与大数据的定量实证主义、统计推理以及可能的中立抽象相关联，后者通常会忽视人文主义的主观性，使自给自足合法化，并促进一种全新的学术自满。在承认古典文学在当今高等教育中的地位下降的同时，他质疑在我们这个时代，学术上的条痕和停滞如何继续助长个人、道德和政治上的自满。
Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education
Series: Critical Antiquities
A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy.
In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn’s portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core, John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment.
The subjects, philosophies, and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were once treated as the foundation of learning, with everything else devolving from them. Hamilton investigates what this model of superiority, derived from the golden age of the classical tradition, shares with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences. He considers how the qualitative methods of classics relate to the quantitative positivism of big data, statistical reasoning, and presumably neutral abstraction, which often dismiss humanist subjectivity, legitimize self-sufficiency, and promote a fresh brand of academic complacency. In acknowledging the reduced status of classics in higher education today, he questions how scholarly striation and stagnation continue to bolster personal, ethical, and political complacency in our present era.
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