THE DEEPEST HUMAN LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE
Book ID/图书代码： 13560014B70453
English Summary/英文概要： Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes philosophy back from the specialists and restores it to its proper place at the center of our humanity, rediscovering it as our most profound effort toward understanding, as a way of life that anyone can live. Exploring the works of some of history’s most important thinkers in the context of the everyday struggles of his students, he guides us through the most vexing quandaries of our existence - and shows just how enriching the examined life can be. Samuelson begins at the beginning: with Socrates, working his most famous assertion - that wisdom is knowing that one knows nothing - into a method, a way of approaching our greatest mysteries. From there he springboards into a rich history of philosophy and the ways its journey is encoded in our own quests for meaning. He ruminates on Epicurus against the sonic backdrop of crickets and restaurant goers in Iowa City. He follows the Stoics into the cell where James Stockdale spent seven years as a prisoner of war. He spins with al-Ghazali first in doubt, then in the ecstasy of the divine. And he gets the philosophy education of his life when one of his students, who authorized a risky surgery for her son that inadvertently led to his death, asks with tears in her eyes if Kant was right, if it really is the motive that matters and not the consequences. Through heartbreaking stories, humanizing biographies, accessible theory, and evocative interludes like "On Wine and Bicycles" or "On Superheroes and Zombies," he invests philosophy with the personal and vice versa. The result is a book that is at once a primer and a reassurance-that many have trod the earth before us, and they have insights into our very souls.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有时候你好像需要一个博士在身边才能打开一本哲学书。我们将哲学问题留给哲学家就像我们把科学问题留给科学家一样。斯科特·萨缪尔森认为无论是对于我们的生活还是哲学，这都是悲惨的。在《人类生活的最深处》中，他将哲学从哲学家手中拿回来，将其还原至在我们人类中心的适当位置，作为我们走向理解的最深刻努力，以及任何人都可以生活的一种方式，重新发现它。探索了他的学生每天都在奋斗的历史上最重要的一些思想家的作品，他引导我们通过我们存在的最棘手的困惑——并告诉我们生活可以丰富多彩。萨缪尔森从最初开始：苏格拉底，探索他最有名的思想——智慧是知道人一无所知，这是接近我们最大的谜团的一种方式。从那里，他进入哲学的丰富历史，旅程的方式以我们独有的意义被编码。他对伊壁鸠鲁反对蟋蟀的声音背景和爱荷华市的餐厅观众进行了沉思。他跟随斯多葛学派进入小牢房，詹姆斯·斯托克代尔在那里作为战俘度过了七年。他开始怀疑安萨里，然后是神圣的狂喜。他从自己的生活中学到了哲学，当他的学生在有风险的手术上签了字，不经意间导致了她儿子的死亡，她饱含泪水问康德是不是正确的，是不是真的过程是最重要的，结果不重要。通过令人心碎的故事，人性化的传记，访问的理论，并穿插令人回味的故事，如“葡萄酒和自行车”或“超级英雄和植物大战僵尸”，他将哲学融入个人，反之亦然。结果写就了一本书，是一本入门书，是一个安慰，其中许多人走在我们前面，他们洞察我们的灵魂。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：萨缪尔森是一位对讲故事有诀窍的哲学家。因此，《人类生活的最深处》是一本人性化和以普通人的生活涉及盛大的哲学主题的书。不仅如此，萨缪尔森的写作方式即使没有学过哲学的普通民众也能看懂。读者会更好地了解一些哲学的基本概念，很多情况下也将开展对自己生活进行审查的重要的第一步。——威廉·B·欧文，《美好生活指南》的作者
"Samuelson is a philosopher with a knack for storytelling. As a result, The Deepest Human Life is a book that humanizes philosophy and that relates grand philosophical themes to the lives of ordinary people. Not only that, but Samuelson writes in a manner that ordinary people-meaning those without a philosophical background-will find inviting. Readers will come away with a better understanding of some of philosophy’s fundamental concepts and in many cases will also have taken important first steps toward conducting an examination of their own lives." (William B. Irvine, author of A Guide to the Good Life)"
About the Author/作者介绍： 斯科特·萨缪尔森住在爱荷华州的爱荷华市，他在柯克伍德社区学院教哲学概论，他也是一位电影评论家，电视节目主持人，以及上砂石路一家法国餐厅的副厨师长。
Scott Samuelson lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where he teaches philosophy at Kirkwood Community College and is a movie reviewer, television host, and sous-chef at a French restaurant on a gravel road.
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