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.
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.
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花瞭大約兩個小時看完《論扯談》。結論是:文章不錯,書就算瞭吧! 這個時代缺少廢話少的作者,能夠如本書作者這樣以簡潔明瞭風格的人進行學術研究的人實在太少瞭。作者的結論也如此簡潔明瞭: ”扯談不是說謊,卻是真理最大的敵人。因為說謊的人知道何者為真,卻講的是假話...
評分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...
評分我喜歡沒事扯淡。 扯淡不是說謊,主要是為瞭打發無聊的時間或者增進友情等等各種目的。 扯淡本身不是目的,隻是一種輕鬆的手段。 我們又不是做科研,不必事事較真,否則生活還有什麼樂趣。 不準吹牛扯淡的社會是殘酷的。 沒有吹過牛扯過蛋的人生是不完整的。 分不清扯淡和真實...
評分這本書的名字會讓人感興趣,那是很自然的事情。因為我們都不可避免地認識到這樣一點:我們幾乎一直都在說些沒有什麼意義的話。 海德格爾也曾定義過這樣一種叫做閑談的東西,這種閑談遮蔽瞭人本真的存在。至於我們為什麼要如此說些不著邊際的話,照海德格爾的意思,人們這麼做無...
評分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...
圖書標籤: 哲學 bullshit 社會學 隨筆 英文 文化 frankfurt 美國
真真bullshit。豆瓣評論比書本身有意思。
評分bullshitter比liar更爛,因為他們根本不在乎真相是什麼。後現代不就是這樣麼?nothing matters anyways
評分小書雖然意外地暢銷,但是我覺得好像還不如frankfurt的訪談們好看,最重要的問題其實被懸置瞭。bullshit對真相的毫不在乎,使其比謊言更有害,這似乎是全書的核心,但書中的很多例證似乎正與之相左。
評分在Strand底樓一取書爬梯上坐著讀完瞭(我是有多懶)最後大概說是我們inherently不穩定,對自己也一無所知,所以對自己sincere也不能稱之為誠實…what a不可知論。想到牛津本科哲學係的麵試題deceive,lie和cheat之間的不同…
評分很小的一本
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