Abstract:

Can I (and you) talk sensibly about William Shakespeare's works? Some historicists see insuperable barriers in trying to understand utterances from different times and cultures, and some skeptics see such barriers in trying to read other minds. In Ludwig Wittgenstein's famous utterance about not understanding a talking lion, is the early modern Englishman Shakespeare one of those lions? Or can a magic key see past such barriers in one of the critical systems that we are offered? I argue that the answer to both questions is no.

中文翻译：

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我可以谈谈莎士比亚吗？

摘要：

我（和你）能明智地谈论莎士比亚的作品吗？一些历史主义者在试图理解来自不同时代和文化的话语时看到了不可逾越的障碍，而一些怀疑论者在试图读懂他人思想时看到了这些障碍。路德维希·维特根斯坦 (Ludwig Wittgenstein) 的名言“听不懂会说话的狮子”中，现代早期的英国人莎士比亚是其中一头狮子吗？或者一把神奇的钥匙能否在我们所提供的关键系统之一中看到这些障碍？我认为这两个问题的答案是否定的。