托马斯•霍尔卡(Thomas Hurka),牛津大学哲学博士,多伦多大学哲学研究所所长,该校名誉校长,加拿大皇家协会成员,当代最具影响力的哲学家之一。著有一系列的著作,包括《美德、不道德和价值》《原则:伦理随笔》和《完美主义》等。从1989年到1992年,曾为多伦多的《环球邮报》撰写每周的伦理专栏文章。
For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities bring us the most joy? While religion, literature, popular psychology, and everyday wisdom all grapple with these questions, philosophy more than anything else uses the tools of reason to make important distinctions, cut away irrelevancies, and distill these issues down to their essentials. Hurka argues that if we are to live a good life, one thing we need to know is which activities and experiences will most likely lead us to happiness and which will keep us from it, while also reminding us that happiness isn't the only thing that makes life good. Hurka explores many topics: four types of good feeling (and the limits of good feeling); how we can improve our baseline level of happiness (making more money, it turns out, isn't the answer); which kinds of knowledge are most worth having; the importance of achieving worthwhile goals; the value of love and friendship; and much more. Unlike many philosophers, he stresses that there isn't just one good in life but many: pleasure, as Epicurus argued, is indeed one, but knowledge, as Socrates contended, is another, as is achievement. And while the great philosophers can help us understand what matters most in life, Hurka shows that we must ultimately decide for ourselves. This delightfully accessible book offers timely guidance on answering the most important question any of us will ever ask: How do we live a good life?
现在,各种各样的自助类、励志类书籍热销市场,大有泛滥之势。它们往往冠以“人生指南”、“生活宝典”、“幸福秘笈”之类的书名来吸引读者眼球,争相扮演布道者的角色,语重心长的讲点人生的道理,以期拯救尚在生活中纠结、徘徊、挣扎的人们。深受这股流行风潮的影响,我也曾...
评分发现和邂逅生命中最好的事物,然后自由、恣意而幸福地享受它们是每一位生者终其一生都不会改变的共同追求,但是现实所呈现给我们的事实却往往与那些愿望相悖。 这么说可不是危言耸听呢。看看我们周围的人吧,被各种各样的不如意和各种各样的规矩、形式以及条条框框所制约和桎...
评分在当今,人们的幸福感节节下跌,越来越多的人感到不幸福的时候,那个千百年来一直被人们追寻的问题:什么是幸福?我们怎样才能得到幸福?又被重新提了出来。托马斯•霍尔卡在《生命中最好的事物》一书中,给我们作出了指引。 幸福是一颗享有快乐的心灵,要幸福必须要先寻...
评分发现和邂逅生命中最好的事物,然后自由、恣意而幸福地享受它们是每一位生者终其一生都不会改变的共同追求,但是现实所呈现给我们的事实却往往与那些愿望相悖。 这么说可不是危言耸听呢。看看我们周围的人吧,被各种各样的不如意和各种各样的规矩、形式以及条条框框所制约和桎...
评分自我意識的覺醒或許是由動物進化成人類的過程中最偉大的現象。就像古希臘哲學家們所探討的那樣,究竟是成為痛苦的蘇格拉底,或者是一頭快樂的豬,哪一個更高尚,更滿足。僅就動物性而言,如果穿暖吃飽,做一頭快樂的豬也沒有什麽不好,但人之所以為人,正是因為他有與動物的本...
I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.
评分I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.
评分I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.
评分I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.
评分I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.
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