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One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, 'we have no theory'. Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
Harry G. Frankfurt is a professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. His books include The Reasons of Love; Necessity, Volition, and Love; and The Importance of What We Care About. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
bullshitter比liar更烂,因为他们根本不在乎真相是什么。后现代不就是这样么?nothing matters anyways
评分小书虽然意外地畅销,但是我觉得好像还不如frankfurt的访谈们好看,最重要的问题其实被悬置了。bullshit对真相的毫不在乎,使其比谎言更有害,这似乎是全书的核心,但书中的很多例证似乎正与之相左。
评分"Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial-notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. and insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit."
评分"Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial-notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. and insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit."
评分这本书的学术味道很浓,并不像标题暗示的那么有趣。
人为什么要扯淡?当形势需要人们去讲他自己也不知所云的话时,当一个人有责任或机会,针对某个话题去发表超过了他对这个话题了解时,扯淡就开始了。 读《论扯淡》到这里,不禁拍案称奇:这说的不就是公司面试么?或者反过来说,面试不就(大多)是扯淡么?或者中肯地说,面试...
评分这本书的名字会让人感兴趣,那是很自然的事情。因为我们都不可避免地认识到这样一点:我们几乎一直都在说些没有什么意义的话。 海德格尔也曾定义过这样一种叫做闲谈的东西,这种闲谈遮蔽了人本真的存在。至于我们为什么要如此说些不着边际的话,照海德格尔的意思,人们这么做无...
评分Mr. Frankfurt starts his book, On Bullshit, with the following statement: “One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.” He then proceeds to develop a theoretical understanding of what is bullshit, and what is not...
评分Bullshit, Mr. Frankfurt! 刘未鹏 /文 链接:http://blog.csdn.net/pongba/archive/2008/03/09/2160467.aspx It was literally like stepping on a load of bullshit (at first I was going for “crap”, but then I thought it would be too impolite not to use the word ...
评分翻看中央翻译出版社的《一桩事先张扬的凶杀案》,前言中有这样的文字: -------------------------------- ……辛辣的嘲讽了权贵,无情的揭露和批判了愚昧无知的封建礼教、封建思想、封建观念、封建迷信和仇杀行为,从一个侧面较为深刻的揭示了拉丁美洲的社会现实。这便是这篇...
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