HUMAN PREDICAMENTS: AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM
Book ID/图书代码： 13560016B88462
English Summary/英文概要： In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new ways of thinking about a particular problem that is fundamental to how we live, such as facing difficult choices, uncontrolla-ble contingencies, complex evaluations, the failures of justice, the miasma of boredom, and the inescapable hypocrisies of social life.Kekes considers how we might deal with these predicaments by comparing how others in different times and cultures have approached them. He examines what is good, bad, instructive, and dangerous in the sexually charged politics of the Shilluk, the Hindu caste system, Balinese role-morality, the religious passion of Cortes and Simone Weil, the fate of Colonel Hi-romichi Yahara during and after the battle for Okinawa, the ritual human sacrifices of the Aztecs, and the tragedies to which innocence may lead. In doing so, he shakes us out of our deep-seated ways of thinking, enlarging our understanding of the possibilities available to us as we struggle with the problems that stand in the way of how we want to live. The result is a highly interesting journey through time and space that illuminates and helps us cope with some of the most basic predica-ments we all face as human beings.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在他的新书中，尊敬的哲学家约翰•凯科斯借鉴人类学、历史和文学来帮助我们应对每当我们试图掌控生活时就会困扰我们的共同困境。每一章中，他都针对对我们怎样生活至关重要的一个特定问题提供了引人入胜的新的思维方式，如面临艰难的选择，不可控事件，复杂的评估，正义的失败，无趣的氛围和社会生活不可避免的虚伪。
凯克斯通过比较不同时代和文化背景下的人们如何面对它们，来思考我们该如何处理这些困境。他调查了在希卢克族、印度教的种姓制度和巴厘角色道德的性别指控政治中什么是好的、坏的、有益的和危险的，科尔特斯和韦伊的宗教热情，冲绳战役期间和之后宏道•亚赫勒的命运，阿兹特克人的祭祀仪式，以及无一时间可能导致的悲剧。在这样做时，他将我们带出根深蒂固的思考方式，扩大我们对可能性的理解，当我们与妨碍我们生活方式的困境争斗时。其结果是带来一段穿过时间和空间的有趣旅程，阐述和帮助我们应对一些人类都面临着的最基本困境。（LNL）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰•科克斯是许多书籍的作者，最近的有《人类状况、享受：生活方式的道德意义》和《生活的扩大：工作中的道德想象力》。
John Kekes is the author of many books, most recently The Human Condition, Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life, and The Enlargement of Life: Moral Imagination at Work.
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