羅伊·索倫森,英國達特茅斯大學哲學教授。
Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: "Preparing hell for people who ask questions like that." A Brief History of the Paradox takes a close look at "questions like that" and the philosophers who have asked them, beginning with the folk riddles that inspired Anaximander to erect the first metaphysical system and ending with such thinkers as Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W.V. Quine. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into twenty-four chapters, each of which pairs a philosopher with a major paradox, allowing for extended consideration and putting a human face on the strategies that have been taken toward these puzzles. Readers get to follow the minds of Zeno, Socrates, Aquinas, Ockham, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, and many other major philosophers deep inside the tangles of paradox, looking for, and sometimes finding, a way out. Filled with illuminating anecdotes and vividly written, A Brief History of the Paradox will appeal to anyone who finds trying to answer unanswerable questions a paradoxically pleasant endeavor.
發表於2024-12-24
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內容還是很好的,就是讀的不太通順。也不是所有的哲學類書籍都要翻譯的那麼艱澀,艱澀並不等於有深意啊。
評分正如簡介中所做的假設,你先假設瞭上帝能創造一塊石頭這個條件,又假設瞭上帝不能搬動這個條件,迴頭你問上帝能不能創造一塊他搬不動的石頭,本身就是把上帝‘能’與‘不能’混淆在一起,能不能都讓你占瞭,不悖論纔怪。 不把所有事情捋順,而試圖把自己和他人都說暈,這本身就...
評分悖論對應著某些數學傢和數學的本體,因此悖論被認為是荒謬的,但是他們確實存在著,還有不少呢!!悖論不僅是具有過分的難處,還有難以解決的好處,因此我們將之稱為悖論的,不僅不是“悖論”,反而是成果豐富的。
評分這基本上是我讀完的耗時最長的一本書,內容本來就夠繞的瞭,加上翻譯基本是按英文語序,很多句子要在腦子裏繞上幾遍纔能明白到底說什麼,當然,還有一些最後也沒繞明白,現在迴想起來腦子裏還是暈暈的。迄今為止我讀的哲學書不多,看這個主要是覺得好玩兒,也不太在乎到底...
評分正如簡介中所做的假設,你先假設瞭上帝能創造一塊石頭這個條件,又假設瞭上帝不能搬動這個條件,迴頭你問上帝能不能創造一塊他搬不動的石頭,本身就是把上帝‘能’與‘不能’混淆在一起,能不能都讓你占瞭,不悖論纔怪。 不把所有事情捋順,而試圖把自己和他人都說暈,這本身就...
圖書標籤: 哲學 悖論 paradox PARADOX 悖論簡史 分析哲學 PHILOSOPHY Logic
柏拉圖竟然傳閑話說芝諾和蘇格拉底有一腿??? 寫法優秀有趣。
評分最近眼皮腫得厲害呢
評分柏拉圖竟然傳閑話說芝諾和蘇格拉底有一腿??? 寫法優秀有趣。
評分柏拉圖竟然傳閑話說芝諾和蘇格拉底有一腿??? 寫法優秀有趣。
評分柏拉圖竟然傳閑話說芝諾和蘇格拉底有一腿??? 寫法優秀有趣。
A Brief History of the Paradox 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載