Translation,as an important medium of cultural exchange,plays a crucial role in the cross-temporal and cross-cultural context of mutual understanding and learning between the East and the West.With the advanced ability to generate human-like language,translation technologies such as ChatGPT have now gradually replaced traditional human translation to a great extend in many fields.However,as an extremely complex intellectual activity in human history,the translation of Chinese philosophical classics requires a profound understanding of language,culture,and philosophical issues,and therefore manual translation remains indispensable.This paper takes the English translation of Chuan Xi Lu as an example to analyze the technological turn of translation during the ChatGPT craze,to explore the internal logic of translating philosophical classics,to examine the evolution of the relationship between technological rationality and value rationality,technological essence and translation essence,translator's responsibility and translation ethics.
ChatGPTtranslation of philosophical classicstechnological turntranslation ethics