THE FIVE-MINUTE PHILOSOPHER

Book ID/图书代码： 14206015B80923

English Summary/英文概要： This book is designed to help us shed our blinkers, put on our thinking caps, and come to conclusions we can really build on. Spend five minutes on any of the 80 questions and answers here and you will gain enormously in wisdom and insight. Gerald Benedict, a philosopher trained in issues of knowledge and faith, offers us a wealth of ideas that prompt us to think more seriously and systematically about those universal questions - with the help of quotations from great thinkers and writers through the ages. As we read and engage with a stimulating text, our minds are opened to new ideas and our lives enriched. This book provides nimble, wise and perceptive responses to questions that have no absolute answers: instead, the author aims to stimulate thought and discussion that will lead to deeper understanding and further exploration. The same question will prompt different answers for different people. Dr Benedict’s masterly discussions, which are informal and not at all academic, draw on sacred texts, humanist writings and poetry from all over the world, all through the centuries, to illuminate the issues - leaving readers free to come to their own conclusions. Armed with this book you are equipped not only to reach your own informed conclusions about the big questions of life, but also to engage knowledgeably in the to-and-fro of debate with family and friends.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本书的目的是帮助我们摆脱我们的有色眼镜，寻根究底，并得出我们可以真正依赖的结论。对这80个问题和答案中的任意一个花费五分钟，你会在智慧和洞察力方面收获巨大。杰拉尔德•本尼迪克是一位在知识和信仰问题上受过训练的哲学家，为我们提供了丰富的想法，促使我们在跨越时代的伟大思想家和作家的帮助下更认真、更系统地思考这些普遍的问题。当我们阅读和参与到这本激励的书中，我们的思想会接触新的想法，我们的生活会丰富。这本书对那些没有绝对答案的问题提供灵活、明智和敏锐的回答：而且作者旨在激发将导致更深层次的理解和进一步的探索的思考和讨论。同样的问题会促使不同的人得到不同的答案。本尼迪克博士高深、非正式的以及非全学术的讨论，借鉴了经文，贯穿整个世纪的世界各地的人文主义者的著作和诗歌，来阐明这些问题，并让读者可以得出自己的结论。有了这本书，你不仅能就关于生命的大问题得出自己的结论，而且还能有见识地跟家人和朋友进行来来往往的争论。（LNL）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 杰拉尔德•本尼迪克毕业于伦敦大学的神学专业，并获得了基督教研究学校、日内瓦大学的文凭和开放大学的博士学位。他主要的学术兴趣是比较宗教哲学，在英国大学教宗教学和哲学之后，他搬到了法国。他是《宗教和世俗信仰的沃特金斯字典》的作者，并写了许多关于玛雅文明的书，包括《玛雅预言：2012》、《信息，视觉和玛雅：2012》、《世界的终结还是启蒙的曙光》。他的一部小说，几部短篇小说和一部广播剧都获了奖。

Gerald Benedict graduated in Divinity from the University of London, and has a postgraduate diploma from the School of Ecumenical Studies, University of Geneva, and a Ph.D. from the Open University. His main academic interest is comparative religious philosophy, and after teaching religious studies and philosophy in colleges and universities in Britain, he moved to France. He is the author of the Watkins Dictionary of Religious and Secular Faiths and a number of books about the Mayan civilisation, including The Mayan Prophecies: 2012 - the Message and the Vision and The Maya: 2012 - the end of the world or the dawn of enlightenment? He has won awards for a novel, several short stories, and a radio drama for the BBC World Service.

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