具体描述
In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the invention of hand-axes and explores how some of our most cherished notions might have originated before humans had language. Then, in a broad sweep, the book moves forward to consider not the battles and treaties of kings and prime ministers, emperors and generals, but the most important ideas we have evolved, by which we live and which separate us from other animals. Watson explores the first languages and the first words, the birth of the gods, the origins of art, the profound intellectual consequences of money. He describes the invention of writing, early ideas about law, why sacrifice and the soul have proved so enduring in religion. He explains how ideas about time evolved, how numbers were conceived, how science, medicine, sociology, economics, and capitalism came into being. He shows how the discovery of the New World changed forever the way that we think, and why Chinese creativity faded after the Middle Ages. In the course of this commanding narrative, Watson reveals the linkages down the ages in the ideas of many apparently disparate philosophers, astronomers, religious leaders, biologists, inventors, poets, jurists, and scores of others. Aristotle jostles with Aquinas, Ptolemy with Photius, Kalidasa with Zhu Xi, Beethoven with Strindberg, Jefferson with Freud. Ideas is a seminal work.
作者简介
Peter Watson is the author of War on the Mind, Wisdom and Strength, The Caravaggio Conspiracy, Ideas, and The German Genius. Educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome, he has written for the Sunday Times, the Times, the New York Times, the Observer, and the Spectator. He lives in London.
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用了近20天时间读完了这本煌煌巨著，有些章节很吸引人，有些则读起来十分痛苦，硬着头皮啃完，到最后结语部分，才真正明白作者说的是什么。 人类（西方视野下）的思想史，实际上是人类的思想创造、引发的历史，就其类型而言，可以分为外在、内在两种。作者将科学的物质世界归为...
评分读这本书的时候正好在一家 P2P 公司的水深火热之中，本来风控是件很简单的事情，本来如果大家能够公开透明的交待清楚自己的工作业绩，什么事情都没有，但是当时我自己就是没有信心了， AUC 本来做到了 0.9X，也只敢对外公开 0.8X。思想史，是心灵美的历史，是可以摒弃尘世污的...
评分文化历来有两大主流。一个是从过去到现在都存在着一部“客观历史”，它与人类之外的世界有关，与观察、探索、传播、发现、测量、实验和操纵环境的世界有关；另一主流是探索人类的灵魂或第二自我的内心有关。首先，人类包括社会生活、政治生活的道德生活取得了确定无疑的成功，...
评分用了近20天时间读完了这本煌煌巨著，有些章节很吸引人，有些则读起来十分痛苦，硬着头皮啃完，到最后结语部分，才真正明白作者说的是什么。 人类（西方视野下）的思想史，实际上是人类的思想创造、引发的历史，就其类型而言，可以分为外在、内在两种。作者将科学的物质世界归为...
评分《思想史》，这本书是我看的彼得沃森的第二本书，第一本是之前介绍过的《20世纪思想史》，这本书可以说把20世纪之前的人类思想智力、人类大脑里发生的一切进展、人类一切知识做了个总结，从主题来看非常宏大，但总的来说作者做的还不错，对各种思想、科技、艺术发展，包括心理...
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比较类的思想史，印象深的还是在原始概念，中古中亚范围，和现代世界的多元映象挺深，越到后面，越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史，印象深的还是在原始概念，中古中亚范围，和现代世界的多元映象挺深，越到后面，越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史，印象深的还是在原始概念，中古中亚范围，和现代世界的多元映象挺深，越到后面，越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史，印象深的还是在原始概念，中古中亚范围，和现代世界的多元映象挺深，越到后面，越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史，印象深的还是在原始概念，中古中亚范围，和现代世界的多元映象挺深，越到后面，越融合得成熟
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