The author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance examines life's essential issues as he recounts the journey down the Hudson River in a sailboat of his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus. Reprint.
作者简介
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作者简介、
罗伯特•M.波西格(Robert M. Pirsig,1928-2017),生于明尼苏达州,在明尼苏达大学主修化学、哲学和传播学;曾到印度学习东方哲学,并任修辞学教授。在探寻真理的过程中,试图寻找支离破碎的文化的整合之道,一度精神分裂。1968年,他与长子克里斯开始了一场骑着摩托车横跨美国大陆的万里长旅,一路经过复杂经验与反省思考,终于恢复了自我的完整,这场旅行后来成为《禅与摩托车维修艺术》的基本情节。1975年波西格在哈得逊河的游历成为《莱拉:一场对道德的探究》一书的基础,这是他的第二部哲学作品。
原文摘录
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There's an old analogy to a cup of tea.If you want to drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a wet mess.Your head is like that cup.It has a limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it.It's very easy to spend your whole life swishing old tea around in your cup thinking it's great stuff because you've never really tried anything new,because you could never get it in,because the old stuff prevented its entry because you were so sure the old stuff was so good,because you never really tried anything new…on and on in anendless circular pattern.
The reason Phaedrus used slips rather than full-sized (查看原文)
1 有用 Oceantaotao 2023-12-26 12:24:19 重庆
"Good is a noun.That was it."
0 有用 cp4 2019-04-27 22:51:52
《禅与摩托车维修艺术》作者续作。延续了Quality的哲学,很难得地对原来的哲学做了进一步修正;故事上比前作逊色不少,毕竟前作是基于极罕见的自传性经历。这一次的文化纠葛转移到了美国文化的缘起,从人类学突破,给出了依然富有洞察力和颠覆性的观点。另外,关于 Morals的哲学,其实与复杂性的观点是契合的,作者对这些前沿科学应该并未涉猎过,这或许是深刻思想的殊途同归。
0 有用 thrash & blues 2021-05-05 13:37:32
黑格尔的意味仍然很强,但不失为哲学佳作
0 有用 蛋吉吉 2024-05-16 14:25:21 辽宁
Not as good a story as motorcycle maintenance. Thot provoking nonetheless.
2 有用 易楚 2015-05-26 02:37:10
作者的前一本书让我收获很多,忍不住再读了这本。 从这本可以看出来,作者完全陷在了语言的幻象中。简单说来,他一直试图用词语在形式上的一体性(比如quality永远都是这样的字母组合,但是在用法上有很多情况,从而,有很多不同的意义),来整合现实世界的纷繁的现象。这是最致命的思考的陷阱吧。 但是,他独立思考的勇气,极大地启发了我。