Great Books of the Western World
依《西方名著》卷首导览图重制:三个时代分区,130 位作者按生年排列,红色横条即其在世年份,木刻小图标为同时期的标志性历史事件——把鼠标停在图标上可看它为什么重要。
Rebuilt from the fold-out chronology in the Great Books of the Western World: three eras, 130 authors ordered by birth, a red bar for each life, woodcut glyphs for the landmark events — hover a glyph to see why it mattered.
屏幕左右两侧各有一条隐形把手,贴过去即现(左=大观念,右=详情),也可直接从边缘拖出宽度。点页面空白处即退出,不必按 Esc。/ 搜索 · I 观念栏 · 选中一位作者时,时间轴上会拉出思想连线:绿色为继承、红色为反对、紫色为回应、金色为注解,箭头指向下游——阿奎那到亚里士多德那条会横跨一千五百年。线型另有分别:实线为有明确文本证据,长虚线为影响属通说但无直接引文,点线只是本页所加的对照、不主张影响。大观念按 Syntopicon 的 102 个观念筛选作者,点「自由」即可看到从爱比克泰德排到奥威尔的那一列。
详情栏里每篇收录篇目下方标出常见中译本(译者与出版社,130 位全覆盖);搜索框也认译者与出版社——输入「傅雷」会得到伏尔泰与巴尔扎克,输入「商务印书馆」会得到一长串。十年读完把 201 篇按年代隔十取一分成十年,可勾选进度、也可打印成清单带走。工具栏的年份滑块拖到某一年,只留当时在世的人;它与「思想的地理」里的滑块联动,两边同步。
观念栏里带「争点 N」的观念(共 46 个、105 处争点),点开可看这一题上两边各是谁:「自由是不受干预还是自我立法」——霍布斯、洛克、密尔在一边,卢梭、康德、黑格尔在另一边;「恶的存在与全善的神相容吗」——奥古斯丁、阿奎那在一边,陀思妥耶夫斯基把孩子的眼泪摆在桌上。点人名即可跳到年表上那一位。
每段年表顶端那条曲线是同时在世人数(三段共用一个刻度,上限 47 人):荷马之后有三百年几乎无人,十九世纪末却挤着四十余位——这条线比任何说明都直观。名单本身怎么来的、又漏掉了谁,见右上角关于这套书——那里还把这套书与 1909 年的《哈佛经典》、1963 年的《通往伟大著作之门》摆在一起比了一遍:两套书重叠 35 位,而 1909 年那套里有孔子和《古兰经》,1990 年这套里一个非西方作者也没有。
Selecting an author draws arcs across the chart — green for descent, red for opposition, violet for response, gold for commentary, arrowheads pointing downstream. Line style marks how well the link is attested: solid for explicit textual evidence, dashed for the standard view without a direct citation, dotted for this page's own juxtapositions. The curve above each band is the number of these 130 alive at once (one shared scale, peak 47). Great Ideas filters the authors by the 102 headings of the Syntopicon; About the set covers how the list was made and who is missing. Each included work lists common Chinese editions with translator and publisher (all 130 authors) — the search box matches translators and publishers too. Ten-year plan deals the 201 works into ten years and can be printed as a checklist.