你会不会觉得一定要有博士学位才看得懂哲学书？我们不敢触碰哲学，就像我们不敢触碰科学一样，一切留给哲学家以及科学家吧。作者Scott Samuelson认为这是错误的概念。在《人生最深处》里，他把哲学带回到我们人性的最中心，重新让我们能够使用它来理解人生。他的目的是把哲学这个复杂的东西透过我们所有人都可以体会的真实生活来理解。他在书中重访历史上最重要的思考家，应用在他现在的同学的奋斗以及挣扎上。他指导我们如何思考一些最基本困惑，同时告诉我们人生到底可以能够多么充实。
作者从最早起的开始：苏格拉提以及他最出名的断言——智慧就是了解我们什么都不知道。作者再将这句话变化成一个看待我们人生奥秘的方式。接下来，他再讨论哲学的丰富历史以及这个历史如何编入我们寻找意义的旅程。他结合了现代以及历史，他在美国爱荷华城一家餐厅的人潮以及外面板球的球赛的噪音之下思考伊比鸠鲁。他拜访一位被关了七年的战俘的时候想到什托伊奇。他经历最重要的一堂哲学课是当他的一位学生来找他。这个学生授权让医生们在她儿子身上举行一个高风险的手术，但是这手术导致了儿子的死亡。这个学生眼睛泛着泪光问Samuelson，康德是否真的是对的，重要的是动机，而不是结果？
作者透过令人心碎的真实故事、人性化的人物传记、易懂的理论以及唤起读者感情的插曲。他在私人生活里注入了哲学，也在哲学理论里注入了私人因素。
关于作者：
Scott Samuelson住在美国爱荷华城，在Kirkwood社区大学教哲学。他同时是一位电影评论家、电视节目主持人、以及厨师。他的网站：http://scottsamuelsonauthor.com/
书评：
“As a freshman in college, Samuelson fought with classmates over whether philosophy was essential for a meaningful life. Fortunately, he’s still fighting. Defying the widespread perception of philosophy as an academic specialty, Samuelson urges readers to join him in a humanizing intellectual adventure, one that begins with Socrates’ frank profession of ignorance. . . . But perhaps no one teaches more than Samuelson’s own diverse college students—a wine-loving bicyclist, a sleep-deprived housewife, a monk-faced factory worker. These seemingly ordinary people underscore the most important lesson of all: philosophy matters for everyone.”
(Bryce Christensen Booklist)
“Scott Samuelson is a philosopher with a knack for storytelling. As a result, The Deepest Human Life is a book that humanizes philosophy and that relates grand philosophical themes to the lives of ordinary people. Not only that, but Samuelson writes in a manner that ordinary people—meaning those without a philosophical background—will find inviting. Readers will come away with a better understanding of some of philosophy’s fundamental concepts and in many cases will also have taken important first steps toward conducting an examination of their own lives.”
(William B. Irvine, author of A Guide to the Good Life)
“The Deepest Human Life is a splendid book for students, writers, philosophers, and anyone interested in exploring the human condition. Samuelson wears his considerable learning lightly, addressing the enduring questions—What is philosophy? What is happiness? What is the nature of good and evil?—in an engaging and accessible manner, reminding readers that the quest for meaning is indeed a matter of life and death. What a marvelous professor he must be. And what good luck to have his wisdom here on the page.”
(Christopher Merrill, author of The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War)
“The Deepest Human Life is charming and upbeat, but it’s also very poignant in places. Samuelson weaves his personal story of teaching at a community college into the philosophical adventure and shows how philosophy is an approach to life—a practice of self-knowing and self-forgetting—rather than a professional career. The result is a unique introduction to philosophy, composed with a rare voice of humane literary sophistication.”
(Stephen T. Asma, author of Against Fairness)
目录：
Prelude on Light Pollution and the Stars
PART 1 * What Is Philosophy?
. 1 Portrait of You as Odysseus
. 2 Portrait of Philosophy as Socrates
Interlude on Laughter and Tears
PART 2 * What Is Happiness?
3 The Exquisite Materialism of Epicurus
4 The Mysterious Freedom of the Stoic
Interlude on Wine and Bicycles
PART 3 * Is Knowledge of God Possible?
. 5 The Ecstasy without a Name
. 6 In Nightmares Begins Rationality
. 7 The Terrifying Distance of the Stars
Interlude on Campfires and the Sun
PART 4 * What Is the Nature of Good and Evil? 1
8 The Moral Worth of a Teardrop
9 The Beast That Is and Is Not
Interlude on Superheroes and Zombies
Conclusion: The Most Beautiful Thing in the World
Acknowledgments
Recommended Further Reading
Notes
Index
- 人生最深处：给每个人的哲学入门书
- The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
- 作者：Scott Samuelson
- 出版社代理人：University of Chicago Press（美国）
- 出版时间：2014年4月
- 页数：232页
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