THE PHILOSOPHER’S DIET: HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT AND CHANGE THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 03650108B21754
English Summary/英文概要： This toothsome classic takes on the combined challenges of discovering the meaning of the universe and eliminating fat at the same time. Its topic sentence contains a promise that should sell millions: "In this book, I tell how to take weight off and keep it off." He doesn’t stop there, but continues, "The book also embodies a philosophy of life. The weight program is the content of the book, the philosophy of life is its form." If Descartes had sat down to write a treatise on losing weight as a metaphor for maintaining discipline amidst life’s vicissitudes, it would have read much like this.
Clearly, Mr. Watson has not written a low-fat, new-age, easy-fix solution for the weight challenged. After all, losing weight is hard work. But for our money, it is the most erudite, fascinating, and eccentric book ever written on the subject of weight control, a combination of common sense (driven by human experience), Cartesian philosophy, and the presumption that understanding the mysteries of weight loss and the universe are somehow compatible, even sympathetic, ambitions.
The author is (of course) a professional philosopher, and this extraordinary exegesis is at once a moral manifesto, a philosophical discourse, and a practical manual (although the chapter on "How to Live" and "How to Die" take it a few steps beyond the ordinary). We love this book for its humor, its iconoclasm, and its weird and wacky mixture of high seriousness and low humor. Read it. Even if you’re not overweight, it’s a book to treasure.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本令人愉悦的经典之作接受了一项双重挑战，在发现宇宙意义的同时并消除脂肪。它的主题包含了一个应该会卖出几百万的承诺:“在这本书里，我告诉你如何减肥，如何保持体重。”作者没有就此打住，而是继续写道:“这本书还体现了一种生活哲学。减肥是本书的内容，人生哲学是本书的体现形式。”如果笛卡尔坐下来写一篇关于减肥的论文，把它比喻为在生活的变迁中保持自律，那么它的内容应该是这样的。
明显地，沃森先生没有为挑战体重的人写一个低脂肪、新时代且简单易行的解决方案。毕竟，减肥是一项艰难的任务。但是，对于我们的钱来说，这是一本最博学、最有趣、和最古怪的书，它将控制体重与人类驱动的常识、笛卡尔的哲学、理解减肥的奥秘和宇宙在某种程度上是相容和共鸣的的假设以及雄心壮志结合在一起。
作者（当然）是一位专业的哲学家，这篇非凡的训诫立刻成为一种道德宣、一段哲学会话，以及一本实用的手册（尽管在《如何生活和如何死亡》的那一章里采取了一些不同寻常的步骤）。我们喜欢这本书，因为它的幽默，它的反传统，高度严肃性和低级幽默的怪异融合。即使你没有超重，也看一看吧，因为它也是一本值得珍藏的书。（XMM）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 理查德•沃森是一位公认的杰出的笛卡尔学者，他退休前是圣路易斯华盛顿大学的哲学教授。他现在住在蒙大拿州的米苏拉。
Richard Watson is a recognized and pre-eminent Cartesian scholar and until his retirement was a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He now lives in Missoula, Montana.
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