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本期书会主题是哲学,行者如此重视此主题,他在书群里隔空示爱主持人杨老师写的文章,好基友们还要本周日相约面谈。
我等浅薄之人,只好读了本给孩子写的哲学书。
因为没有中文版,很少有人评价,就看到三两条:我却与之心有戚戚。
1’为小孩子写的哲学入门读物,和生活息息相关,举例和口吻很符合小孩子的视角,书中提出的大问题和阐释视角让成年人读起来也非常有启发!
2‘为读到如此一本好书而战栗。
美亚的评价就很多了,且更高更细了,“ I have had read it from cover to cover, and as a 40 year old woman I have honestly learnt something new.”
深有同感啊。我也于其中学到很多新东西。
本书回答了以下26个问题,正如书名所讲:big ideas,除了第一个什么是哲学外,其他25个哲学问题均是由著名哲学家提出的:
1、 What Is Philosophy? 什么是哲学。
It’s originally a word from Ancient Greek: the first part, philo, means ‘love’ (philately means the love of stamps). The second part, which comes from the word sophia, means ‘wisdom’. So, when you put the two parts together—philo-sophy—it literally means ‘the love of wisdom’.
从希腊字说起,philo表示爱,sophia表示wisdom智慧、学问,智慧之爱,爱的学问?如何翻译更好?
那么wisdom到底是什么呢?智慧?学问?
It’s about being sensible, kind, calm and accepting of how life can sometimes be (which isn’t always perfect, and sometimes really quite hard).
也许是关于善感,宽厚,平静和活在并不完美的当下?
书里此处讲了一个丢了车钥匙的妈妈的反应,或者很激动地大吼,说自己是白痴unwise;还有一种反应是,妈妈平静地讲自己又不知道把车钥匙放哪里了,甚至会笑自己的傻样儿wise。
从前我丢了kindle后,给别人讲,女儿对我的评价是,”我妈妈就不怕丢东西,她丢了东西还高兴呢。“ 因为我总觉得失财后总会有好事发生。也许我的wisdom来源于从前的经历(丢了东西后大事很顺利完结)与未来的渴望(未来会有更大好事发生)。有时候失而复得反而觉得有点失望,哈哈。
2、 Know Yourself with Socrates:苏格拉底
It sounds odd to say it, but maybe you don’t know yourself very well. Of course you know lots of things about yourself—you know what age you are, the colour of your eyes and what you like to have for lunch—but some things are hard to know. Maybe you’ve never seen the back of your ears, for instance, and probably you don’t know much about your Eustachian
tubes either (those are the tubes that go from inside your ears to the back of your nose). These sort of things don’t actually matter much, but there are more important things you might not know about yourself, which you should: things about your feelings. It’s not just you—everyone has difficulty understanding their feelings.
听上去奇怪,但我们或许并不了解自己多少。我们当然可以看到知道了解自己的年龄,肤色,喜欢的食物等等,但我们根本看不到自己耳朵后侧与咽鼓管( Eustachian tubes) 等等。而有些事情不了解也没有关系,但关于其实是很难发了解自己的感情与感受的,无论大人还是小孩。为什么呢?
因为我们大脑的工作方式,大脑知道我们是高兴还是伤心,但并不知道我们为什么开心或者焦虑,或我们因何而激动,大脑不擅长情绪因果的区别。想象感受是一条持在树枝上很长很长的蛇,你可以看到蛇头伸着信子,那是你的感伤感受;但你看不到蛇尾它缠在哪根树枝上,事实上蛇尾才是感伤的原因。
Thanks to Socrates, our thinking-friend from Ancient Greece, we’ve learnt about how you can get to know yourself better. |
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