WHY WE THINK THE THINGS WE THINK: PHILOSOPHY IN A NUTSHELL
Book ID/图书代码： 09220014B74977
English Summary/英文概要： Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Has it occurred to you that these thoughts may be universal? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? You may not know much about art but are intrigued to know what it actually is. This in turn may lead you to ask yourself if beauty is subjective and in the eye of the beholder. Or maybe none of these things ultimately matter if everything is just an illusion or a dream?
All of the above ideas are some of the central questions of philosophical enquiry that have engaged, troubled and exasperated some of the greatest minds throughout the history of human civilisation, provoking argument and debate in an attempt to broaden the horizons of human thought.
Why We Think the Way We Do attempts to demystify some of these key questions by tracing their origins in the writings of prominent thinkers through the ages, from the colonnades of ancient Greece to the intellectual salons of twentieth-century France, and show how these ideas and concepts developed over time, often giving rise to more questions than answers and the impact they have made on the history of human thought.
Each section starts with a philosophical proposition, dilemma or open-ended question such as ‘do we have free will?’, ‘what defines good and evil?’ or ‘is too much better than not enough?’, breaks down the key concepts, issues and arguments into jargon- free, accessible form and assesses how these ideas have influenced the way we think about ourselves and the world around us. Why We Think the Way We Do: Philosophy in a Nutshell provides plenty of food for thought for both the amateur philosopher and enlightened thinker to digest.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你有没有发现自己总是会若有所思？是否曾疑惑半杯水是半满，还是半空呢？你想知道什么是真正的幸福是或如何去实现它吗？或也许这些都只是一时的空穴来风，如果一切都只是幻觉或一场梦？这些以哲学为主的问题，一直以来都在人类历史文明的进程中，不断被提出、困扰，激发着一些伟大的思想家，引发不断地争论和辩论，以试图扩阔视野人类思想史。作者阿兰??斯蒂芬通过著名思想家的原著资料，探索这些困扰着世人的问题，从古希腊的廊柱，到二十世纪法国的，知识产权沙龙，说明了随着时间的推移这些想法和概念的发展。《为什么我们会这样去思考》为业余哲学家和启蒙思想家吸收这些理念，提供了大量的精神食粮。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 阿兰??斯蒂芬是一名自由撰稿人和教师，他著有几部关于历史和流行文化著作。斯蒂芬拥有哲学硕士学位，是‘地下文学杂志’的编辑和创办人。作者目前和妻儿住在布赖顿。Alain Stephen is a freelance writer and teacher and is the author of several books on history and popular culture. He is a Master of Philosophy and is the founder and editor of the Samizdat Literary Journal. He lives in Brighton with his wife and daughter.
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