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发表于2024-05-15
Does Santa Exist? pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa--from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang Theory
Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick becomes a deeply insightful, laugh-out-loud discussion of the way some things exist but may not really be there. Just like Santa and his reindeer.
Even after we outgrow the jolly fellow, the essential paradox persists: There are some things we dearly believe in that are not universally acknowledged as real. In Does Santa Exist? Kaplan shows how philosophy giants Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein strove to smooth over this uncomfortable meeting of the real and unreal--and failed. From there he turns to mysticism's attempts to resolve such paradoxes, surveying Buddhism, Taoism, early Christianity, Theosophy, and even the philosophers at UC Berkeley under whom he studied. Finally, this brilliant comic writer alights on--surprise--comedy as the ultimate resolution of the fundamental paradoxes of life, using examples from The Big Bang Theory , Monty Python's cheese shop sketch, and many other pop-culture sources.
Finally Kaplan delves deeper into what this means, from how our physical brains work to his own personal confrontations with life's biggest questions: If we're all going to die, what's the point of anything? What is a perfect moment? What can you say about God? Or Santa?
ERIC KAPLAN is a co-executive producer of (and writer for) the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory . Previously he wrote for the Late Show with David Letterman , Futurama (for which he won an Emmy Award), and Flight of the Conchords . Kaplan graduated from Harvard and is currently completing his PhD dissertation in philosophy at UC Berkeley.
如果“有趣”的定义只是插科打诨,那么这当然是一本“有趣”的书。然而对我来说这书里的嬉皮笑脸,牵强附会的比喻多到了影响心情的程度。千万不要以为这是什么哲学或者逻辑学入门读物,在我看来这只是作者为自己的喜剧事业背书而已。
评分一下午在广图读完了,纯粹是被封面和书名吸引。通俗易懂的哲学书,比较浅显,但文风幽默,很有大爆炸的feel~
评分近乎准确地描述出了哲学之路上一些必然遇到的困境……总之,Bazinga~
评分一本哲学小书,因为作者是《生活大爆炸》的编剧才看的。如何对待矛盾?如何看待古老的传说信仰?作者说逻辑和神秘主义都不好用,喜剧、幽默才是正经。最后论述了犹太卡巴拉派思想,还有无处不在的神经科学。#推荐给爱思考的人
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不喜欢的就不要看了,不懂不喜欢还看到最后,还要批评的人。作为休闲读物,挑挑能吸引自己的看下去,除非你想当做工具书读,不过想要当工具书选个别的哲学类读物吧,这本书不建议。 比起译过来的中文书名还是更喜欢英文名,更有趣,也更引人遐想。“本书书名无法描述本书内容”...
评分其实英文原版叫《Does Santa Exist?》圣诞老人存在吗?中文翻译为了哗众取宠,取了这么个不靠谱的名字,不过这些年出版商为了迎合市场,书名早就越来越糟糕了,出版商们忘记了,好的公司不是去迎合市场,应该是去引导市场。时尚亦如此。 抛开书名的翻译问题不说,书的内容也...
评分实际这本书应该翻译成《圣诞老人真的存在吗》,但是为了营销翻译了现在的书名。作者虽然是生活大爆炸的编辑,但也只是之一,书写的比较混乱,不知翻译问题还是原文实际就这样,很多道理绕来绕去没讲明白,或者简单的讲复杂了。最后两章作者推荐阿里哲学派,让整本书看起来像是...
评分逻辑存在的意义就是将我们从自相矛盾的困境中拯救出来,带入能够自圆其说的新境地。 每天自然捧腹大笑三次有助于身体健康。 创造性其实就是一种对自己的承诺。如果我们一直重复之前的工作,那就谈不上创造性,不过是在剽窃过去的自己罢了。 如果你不想显得很傻,按照实践理性主...
评分Does Santa Exist? pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024