
尼格爾·羅傑斯 麥爾·湯普森
本書記錄了八位偉大哲學家們與常人格格不入甚至是荒誕的、糟糕的“黑歷史”,以輕鬆明快的方式解讀其哲學思想,告訴我們偉大的哲學家也不能總是對的,他們天才的靈魂裏也同時住着一個瘋子。書中的有些材料本身就足以讓人震驚、讓人開心、讓人氣憤。爲想了解哲學但卻不知從何下手的你提供了一個基本的工具箱,帶你走進大師的精神世界。或許只有遊歷於大師們內心的精彩世界,才能找到哲學對於我們的真正意義。
錯別字一大堆,甚至還有名字打錯的,還有一些翻譯實在是看不懂,希望後續改善
哲學家的真實人生;此書原名爲《行爲糟糕的哲學家》,與此版譯者是同一人。
四星推薦,讀的英文版。 The author critiques several of modernity’s most prominent philosophers by scrutinizing their private lives, offering insight into the genesis of ideologies often deemed unconventional, violent, or counterintuitive. Each philosopher discussed grappled with profound personal struggles. Bertrand Russell's chaotic personal life and emotionally glacial demeanor cast a long shadow. His profound inability to manage family relations deeply impacted his son, while his private chaos left his wife in despair. This personal turmoil contrasted sharply with his public persona of benevolence—largely crafted by his popular writings—which often masked a deeply condescending attitude. This disconnect extended to his controversial public stances, such as his support for atomic bombing. Martin Heidegger explicitly subordinated his philosophy to the service of an anti-Semitic revolution. He did not view this as a perverted deployment of his ideas, but rather saw himself as the philosophical sovereign destined to guide the new world order of National Socialism. To this end, he jettisoned academic integrity and betrayed personal friendships, all in pursuit of lending philosophical legitimacy to Nazi ideology. Michel Foucault’s pursuit of “speaking truth to power” took a dangerously literal form in his liberally risky sex life—a living philosophy that treated his own body, and by extension the bodies of others, as a site of radical, often lethal, experimentation. In continuing high-risk practices after contracting AIDS, his personal defiance crossed into ethical territory, effectively gambling with public health and amplifying the epidemic’s spread within the gay community. ...... These Western philosophers failed to reconcile with life or death—the ultimate theme of our earthly existence. It has been said that the goal of philosophy is not to solve life's problems. And indeed, it is not.
哲學入門書非常中肯和詳細了。大佬們甚至比常人有更多的難言之隱和混亂,這說明了什麼?混亂中產生秩序,宇宙也是混沌中來。 我試圖總結,世界上有兩種人可以改變世界,一種是不被母親接受心有裂痕的人,另一種是備受母親鍾愛。總之就是精神極大豐富,攻擊性很強,不在意他人看法的人。 哲學都建立在瘋狂的輸出和性慾的釋放上,大部分的哲學家有深深的心理創傷,不穩定的人際交往和混亂的情慾關係。所以只有痛苦和不穩定纔會使人對世界有深深的觸感和犀利的思考,因爲人活下來的本能。而我們大多數人都在中間地帶,沒有多麼豐富的語言、知識基礎,被關注但又不被欣賞認可,矛盾但又不至於毀滅,所以就是工蟻們。 哲學家們想的是:我要跟誰做doi,我要寫本書抨擊xx,ta有問題。 哲學是瘋狂的,因爲生命從此翻天覆地的改變;哲學是平靜的,因爲這就是生命。
美國前總統羅斯福常跟一些不誠實的政客有往來,而且會星象占卜學,有婚外情,是一個老煙槍,每天喝8到10杯的馬丁尼。英國前首相丘吉爾有過2次被解僱的記錄,睡覺睡到中午纔起來,大學時吸鴉片,而且每天傍晚會喝一大誇特威士忌;他們的壞習慣或者不當的行爲並沒有阻止他們成爲美國和英國最偉大政治家。而臭名昭著的納粹頭目希特勒,反而是一名行爲端正的人,素食主義者,不抽菸,只偶爾喝一點啤酒,從沒有發生婚外情
偏見太多,影響人物的真實,很多的觀點都是不客觀的
切入點很獨特,不過我買的實體書紕漏百出,讀起來苦不堪言。還是比較有傾向性的,可做輔助讀物[呲牙]
有意思的一本書,讓我們更全面瞭解這些哲學家的生平,但就好像作者都是帶着一種比較對立面的語句來描寫的。可能是其他的書都太注重於讚賞這些大師的文采了吧[壞笑]
爲作者的三觀打call。有趣通俗,敢說敢鬥爭,而且還附帶介紹了相關的哲學觀點和思想體系。就是視角是非常跳脫和辯證的,超然的哲學外有世俗價值的支撐。
這本書用八卦的心態和調侃的語氣寫了現代的八位哲學家的生活,通過他們“糟糕”的行爲來表達他們的思想學派。 我們一直認爲哲學是一門深䆳的學問,常常與理性,真理聯繫在一起,而本書卻祛除了哲學家的神聖性,告訴我們:理性的思想並不一定會有理智的生活,思考的智慧並不代表智慧的生活,不管是自我陶醉的盧梭,悲觀苦行的叔本華,病態超人選擇的尼釆,理性的邏輯分析行爲的羅素,苦行的禁慾者維特跟斯坦,存在主義的海德格爾,超越理性的薩特和思想極端的福柯。 當除去道德體系的評判外,他們的思想告訴我們脆弱和無知的人類是怎樣的愚蠢,而不是糟糕,同樣,面對現實生活是抱有微笑和嘲諷的超越思考,而不是犬儒! 釋譯的不太好