| Abstract(Chinese) | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract(English) | 第5-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter One Kantian Philosophy and Melville's Thoughts | 第14-20页 |
| 1.1 Kantian Philosophy | 第14-18页 |
| 1.2 Melville's Life and Thoughts | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two A Comparison of Ahab and Ishmael's Attitudes toward Noumena and Human Cognition | 第20-31页 |
| 2.1 Ahab's Search for Moby Dick and Denial of the Limitation of Human Cognition | 第20-23页 |
| 2.2.Ishmael's Acceptance of the Unknowablity of the Noumna and the Subjectivity and Relativity of Human Cognition | 第23-31页 |
| Chapter Three A Comparison of Ahab and Ishmael's Attitudes toward Morality | 第31-42页 |
| 3.1 Ahab's Violation of Kantian Morality | 第31-37页 |
| 3.2 Ishmael's Assumption of Moral Obligation | 第37-42页 |
| Chapter Four A Comparison of Ishmael and Ahab's Attitudes toward Sublimity | 第42-49页 |
| 4.1 Ahab's Hatred toward the Sublimity | 第42-44页 |
| 4.2 Ishmael's Appreciation of the Sublimity | 第44-49页 |
| Conclusion | 第49-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-54页 |
