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.
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.
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文化曆來有兩大主流。一個是從過去到現在都存在著一部“客觀曆史”,它與人類之外的世界有關,與觀察、探索、傳播、發現、測量、實驗和操縱環境的世界有關;另一主流是探索人類的靈魂或第二自我的內心有關。首先,人類包括社會生活、政治生活的道德生活取得瞭確定無疑的成功,...
評分自德爾斐神廟箴言告誡世人“認識你自己”,到大約公元4-5世紀,基督教又發展齣來一種新的自我技術,叫做“述說自己”,人類在這個發展過程中不但沒認識自己也沒說清自己。因為要“述說自己”首先就要弄清楚自己這個主體是什麼?一個有著什麼樣各種思想問題的主體,一個必須死磕...
評分 評分自德爾斐神廟箴言告誡世人“認識你自己”,到大約公元4-5世紀,基督教又發展齣來一種新的自我技術,叫做“述說自己”,人類在這個發展過程中不但沒認識自己也沒說清自己。因為要“述說自己”首先就要弄清楚自己這個主體是什麼?一個有著什麼樣各種思想問題的主體,一個必須死磕...
評分《思想史》,這本書是我看的彼得沃森的第二本書,第一本是之前介紹過的《20世紀思想史》,這本書可以說把20世紀之前的人類思想智力、人類大腦裏發生的一切進展、人類一切知識做瞭個總結,從主題來看非常宏大,但總的來說作者做的還不錯,對各種思想、科技、藝術發展,包括心理...
圖書標籤: 思想史 西方哲學 政治學 Eng 美國 社會學 待讀 曆史
比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
評分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
評分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
評分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
評分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
Ideas 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載