多西泰·奥布拉多维奇

作品

• 1783生平与奇遇

  一部自传，讲述作者逃离修道院、游历欧洲的经历，把它写成一场走向理性与宽容的教育；第二部分采用书信体。

• 1784健全理性的忠告

  关于德性、幸福与理性的简短道德论文，用接近塞尔维亚口语的语言为广大读者写成。

立场

Obradović is regarded as the leading figure of the Serbian Enlightenment. What he brought back from his travels was less a system than an attitude: the moral philosophy of the German Enlightenment, which he encountered in Halle and Leipzig, together with English and ancient authors, adapted for readers who had so far known mainly church books. His central decision was linguistic. In the “Letter to Haralampije” (1783) he announced that he would write not in the learned language based on Church Slavonic but in a language close to the speech of ordinary people, so that everyone could read and understand. In “Life and Adventures” he turned his own departure from the monastery into an argument for reason, useful work and education and criticised monasticism, superstition and rigid fasting rules; in the “Counsels” and the fables he taught an ethics of moderation, friendship and self-improvement. He argued for religious tolerance between Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants and for the education of women. Vuk Karadžić’s language reform built on his turn to the vernacular, though Vuk went much further; the literary historian Jovan Skerlić made him the emblem of the Serbian Enlightenment. Historians of philosophy describe his thought as eclectic and largely dependent on German popular philosophy; its importance lies in transmission and in the creation of a modern reading public.

生平与背景

Dimitrije Obradović was born in Čakovo in the Banat, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy (today Ciacova in Romania); his year of birth is given as 1739 or 1742. Orphaned early, he entered the monastery of Hopovo in the Fruška Gora as a youth and took the monastic name Dositej. Around 1760 he left the monastery in search of learning and began decades of travel: he taught in Dalmatia, visited Mount Athos, studied Greek in Smyrna, lived on Corfu and in Vienna, studied philosophy in Halle and Leipzig in 1782–83 and visited Paris and London, where he learned English. In Leipzig he published his autobiography “Life and Adventures” (1783, second part 1788) and the “Counsels of Sound Reason” (1784); his “Fables”, adapted from Aesop and others with commentaries, followed in 1788. After years in Trieste he went to Serbia, which had risen against Ottoman rule, in 1807. In Belgrade he helped to found the Higher School (Velika škola, 1808), and in 1811 he became the first minister of education of the insurgent government. He died in Belgrade in 1811, a few weeks after taking office, and was buried by the entrance of the Cathedral Church.

其他主要作品

• Letter to Haralampije (Pismo Haralampiju, 1783)
• Life and Adventures (Život i priključenija, 1783/1788)
• Counsels of Sound Reason (Sovjeti zdravago razuma, 1784)
• Fables (Basne, 1788)