尊敬的Ben Ashcroft先生，尊敬的龚海燕总编辑，女士们，先生们：

Dear Mr. Ben Ashcroft,

Dear Ms. Gong Haiyan,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

今天我们聚在一起，热烈庆贺冯契《人的自由与真善美》（Human Freedom and the Values of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful）英译本出版。冯契先生是002白菜网哲学学科的奠基人之一。冯著英译的出版，对于华东师大002cc白菜资讯来说是一件大喜事。明年将是冯契先生诞辰110周年、逝世30周年，本书的出版也是对他极好的纪念方式。在此，请允许我代表002cc白菜资讯同仁，向德古意特同事、华东师大出版社同事表示衷心的感谢，感谢他们为此书的出版所付出的心血。同时，我也要为翁海贞女士、郁振华教授、贡华南教授等哲学同仁组成的翻译团队点赞。接下来，我们正在着手翻译出版冯契“智慧说”（Treatise of Wisdom）的另两部著作，《认识世界和认识自己》（Knowing the World and Knowing the Self）、《逻辑思维的辩证法》（The Dialectics of Logical Thinking）。预祝我们的合作取得更加丰硕的成果。

Today we are here together to celebrate the launch of English version ofHuman Freedom and the Values of the True, the Good, and the Beautifulby Feng Qi. Feng Qi was one of the founders of  Philosophy at East China Normal University. The publication of the English edition is a great news for the Department of Philosophy. Next year will be the 110th anniversary of Feng Qi’s birth and the 30th anniversary of his passing away. The publication of the book is a wonderful tribute to him. On behalf of the Department of Philosophy at East China Normal University, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to colleagues of De Gruyter Brill and ECNUP for their great efforts for the publication. I am also proud for the translation group of Haizhen Weng, Prof. Zhenhua Yu, Prof  Hua'nan Gong and others. We are working on the translation and publication of the other two volumes of Feng Qi’s Treatise of Wisdom:Knowing the World and Knowing the Self andThe Dialectics of Logical Thinking. I wish a remarkably fruitful collaboration for us.

自由、真、善、美，这些都是人类共通的价值。通过翻译，我们可以看到，汉语世界对自由、真、善、美的讨论，英语世界对freedom、truth、goodness、beauty的讨论有非常多的相通之处。这可能正是翻译的重要意义之一吧。《圣经》上说，上帝害怕只说一种语言、只用一种文字的人类会造出通天之塔，于是就变乱人类的语言，让他们彼此无法相互理解，再也没有能力合作，最后散居地球各个角落。在一定的意义上，翻译乃是抗拒上帝意志、逆天而行的人类事业。上帝变乱人类的语言，致使人类无法合作；人类恰恰要通过翻译，沟通不同的语言，让散居地球各个角落的人类能够相互理解、通力合作。上帝毁了人类的通天之塔（the tower of Babel）,人类要自己造世界桥（the bridge of the earth）。

Freedom, truth, goodness and beauty are common values recognized by human beings. Through translation, we can find similarities between the discussion ofziyou,zhen,shan,meiin the Chinese world andfreedom,truth,goodness,beauty in the western world, which may be the significance of translation. According to the Bible, Lord feared thathuman beings speaking a single language and using the same words would constructthe tower of Babel and heconfused their speech, so that theywould not understand what they say to one another. Human beings were unable to work with each other and werescattered all over the face of the earth. In a sense, translation could be deemed as a human cause to go against the will of the Lord. While the Lord confounds the language ofhuman beings, causing them unable to understand each other, human beings try to understand and cooperate with each othersscattered all over the face of the earth by translation. While the Lord destroysthe tower of Babel, human beings createthe bridge of the earth on their own.

二十多年前，A. S. Cau主编的《中国哲学百科全书》（Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy）中有一个词条介绍了冯契哲学的原创性，指出：“他终身一生，致力于探讨如何‘转识成智’这一古老的问题，试图提出‘广义认识论’的解决方案。”十多年前，国际知名刊物《当代中国思想》（Contemporary Chinese Thought）出版了冯契哲学专辑，译介了冯契在1944年完成的硕士论文《智慧》（“On Wisdom”），以及冯契在1994年发表的《〈智慧说〉三篇导论》（“Inquiries into Wisdom: An Introduction to the Three Essays on Wisdom”）。专辑的两位特邀编辑杨国荣、黄勇教授都是在中英文学界非常有影响力的学者）。他们在专辑导言中写道： “冯契的探索遍诸古今中西，然心之所系唯在智慧。”

More than twenty years ago, an item inEncyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy, edited byA. S. Cau, introduced the originality ofFeng Qi’s philosophy, stating: “He focused his lifelong effort on the time-honored problem of how to “transform knowledge to wisdom” and tried to solve it by constructing what he calls “epistemology in a broad sense.” More than a decade ago, the internationally recognized journalContemporary Chinese Thoughtpublished aspecial issue onFeng Qi’s Philosophy, translating and introducing his master’s thesis “On Wisdom” completed in 1944, and “Inquiries into Wisdom: An Introduction to the Three Essays on Wisdom” published in 1994. Twoguest editors of thespecial issue, Professor Yang Guorong and Huang Yong, both are influential scholars in the Chinese and Western philosophy world, wrote in the introduction: “Feng Qi explored many areas of Chinese and Western, ancient and modern philosophy, but he was always most concerned with the idea of wisdom.”

“转识成智”是一个古老的问题。佛教唯识学谈论它，冯契谈论它。在AI崛起的今天，如何转识成智、从知识转向智慧更是时代的基本问题。弗兰西斯•培根的名言“知识就是力量”已经成为现代精神的经典表述。在今天，“知识就是力量”的说法已经显得不合时宜，我们需要提出更加合理的当代新格言。也许，我们应该说：“智慧才是力量”？无论如何，通过冯契著作的英译，越来越多的读者将看到“智慧说”的当代价值与理论潜能。预祝人类的未来更加智慧、我们的明天更真、更善、更美、更自由！

Transforming knowledge to wisdom is a long-standing question, which is not only discussed byBuddhist school of Consciousness-only but also byFeng Qi. In the rise of AI, how totransform knowledge to wisdom is a fundamental issue of the times. Francis Bacon's famous dictum, "Knowledge is power", has been a classic expression of modern spirit. However, in these days, it sounds a little bit outdated, and we need to propose more new maxims in line with the trend of the times. Perhaps, we should say, "Wisdom is power"? In any case, more and more readers will find the contemporary value and theoretical potential of theTreatise of Wisdom through English translations of Feng Qi's works. May human’s future be wiser, our tomorrow be more true, more virtuous, more beautiful, and freer!

谢谢大家！

Thank you!