
尼格尔·罗杰斯 麦尔·汤普森
本书记录了八位伟大哲学家们与常人格格不入甚至是荒诞的、糟糕的“黑历史”,以轻松明快的方式解读其哲学思想,告诉我们伟大的哲学家也不能总是对的,他们天才的灵魂里也同时住着一个疯子。书中的有些材料本身就足以让人震惊、让人开心、让人气愤。为想了解哲学但却不知从何下手的你提供了一个基本的工具箱,带你走进大师的精神世界。或许只有游历于大师们内心的精彩世界,才能找到哲学对于我们的真正意义。
错别字一大堆,甚至还有名字打错的,还有一些翻译实在是看不懂,希望后续改善
哲学家的真实人生;此书原名为《行为糟糕的哲学家》,与此版译者是同一人。
四星推荐,读的英文版。 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.
哲学入门书非常中肯和详细了。大佬们甚至比常人有更多的难言之隐和混乱,这说明了什么?混乱中产生秩序,宇宙也是混沌中来。 我试图总结,世界上有两种人可以改变世界,一种是不被母亲接受心有裂痕的人,另一种是备受母亲钟爱。总之就是精神极大丰富,攻击性很强,不在意他人看法的人。 哲学都建立在疯狂的输出和性欲的释放上,大部分的哲学家有深深的心理创伤,不稳定的人际交往和混乱的情欲关系。所以只有痛苦和不稳定才会使人对世界有深深的触感和犀利的思考,因为人活下来的本能。而我们大多数人都在中间地带,没有多么丰富的语言、知识基础,被关注但又不被欣赏认可,矛盾但又不至于毁灭,所以就是工蚁们。 哲学家们想的是:我要跟谁做doi,我要写本书抨击xx,ta有问题。 哲学是疯狂的,因为生命从此翻天覆地的改变;哲学是平静的,因为这就是生命。
美国前总统罗斯福常跟一些不诚实的政客有往来,而且会星象占卜学,有婚外情,是一个老烟枪,每天喝8到10杯的马丁尼。英国前首相丘吉尔有过2次被解雇的记录,睡觉睡到中午才起来,大学时吸鸦片,而且每天傍晚会喝一大夸特威士忌;他们的坏习惯或者不当的行为并没有阻止他们成为美国和英国最伟大政治家。而臭名昭著的纳粹头目希特勒,反而是一名行为端正的人,素食主义者,不抽烟,只偶尔喝一点啤酒,从没有发生婚外情
偏见太多,影响人物的真实,很多的观点都是不客观的
切入点很独特,不过我买的实体书纰漏百出,读起来苦不堪言。还是比较有倾向性的,可做辅助读物[呲牙]
有意思的一本书,让我们更全面了解这些哲学家的生平,但就好像作者都是带着一种比较对立面的语句来描写的。可能是其他的书都太注重于赞赏这些大师的文采了吧[坏笑]
为作者的三观打call。有趣通俗,敢说敢斗争,而且还附带介绍了相关的哲学观点和思想体系。就是视角是非常跳脱和辩证的,超然的哲学外有世俗价值的支撑。
这本书用八卦的心态和调侃的语气写了现代的八位哲学家的生活,通过他们“糟糕”的行为来表达他们的思想学派。 我们一直认为哲学是一门深䆳的学问,常常与理性,真理联系在一起,而本书却祛除了哲学家的神圣性,告诉我们:理性的思想并不一定会有理智的生活,思考的智慧并不代表智慧的生活,不管是自我陶醉的卢梭,悲观苦行的叔本华,病态超人选择的尼釆,理性的逻辑分析行为的罗素,苦行的禁欲者维特跟斯坦,存在主义的海德格尔,超越理性的萨特和思想极端的福柯。 当除去道德体系的评判外,他们的思想告诉我们脆弱和无知的人类是怎样的愚蠢,而不是糟糕,同样,面对现实生活是抱有微笑和嘲讽的超越思考,而不是犬儒! 释译的不太好