ERIC KAPLAN is a co-executive producer of (and writer for) the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory . Previously he wrote for the Late Show with David Letterman , Futurama (for which he won an Emmy Award), and Flight of the Conchords . Kaplan graduated from Harvard and is currently completing his PhD dissertation in philosophy at UC Berkeley.
发表于2024-11-24
Does Santa Exist? 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
不喜欢的就不要看了,不懂不喜欢还看到最后,还要批评的人。作为休闲读物,挑挑能吸引自己的看下去,除非你想当做工具书读,不过想要当工具书选个别的哲学类读物吧,这本书不建议。 比起译过来的中文书名还是更喜欢英文名,更有趣,也更引人遐想。“本书书名无法描述本书内容”...
评分首先,作者埃里克·卡普兰(EricKaplan)是美剧《生活大爆炸》的编剧,分析哲学的硕士,这点很有噱头,本书号称“《生活大爆炸》有多搞笑,这本书就有多烧脑,反之亦然”,实际上的确如此,在我为自己的脑细胞哀悼之时,我决定写我今年的第一篇读书笔记,也可以叫做读后感。 ...
评分 评分实际这本书应该翻译成《圣诞老人真的存在吗》,但是为了营销翻译了现在的书名。作者虽然是生活大爆炸的编辑,但也只是之一,书写的比较混乱,不知翻译问题还是原文实际就这样,很多道理绕来绕去没讲明白,或者简单的讲复杂了。最后两章作者推荐阿里哲学派,让整本书看起来像是...
评分这世上无论什么都因人而异 看书前不一定必须要看它的短评 不要总是做一个被牵着鼻子走的人 既然讨厌它何必要花钱去买罪受 让它去虐待你的精神世界? 在我看来 它是一本有趣的大众哲学 尽管文字描述也不算浅显易懂 但是它丰富了我的世界!
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A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa--from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang Theory
Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick becomes a deeply insightful, laugh-out-loud discussion of the way some things exist but may not really be there. Just like Santa and his reindeer.
Even after we outgrow the jolly fellow, the essential paradox persists: There are some things we dearly believe in that are not universally acknowledged as real. In Does Santa Exist? Kaplan shows how philosophy giants Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein strove to smooth over this uncomfortable meeting of the real and unreal--and failed. From there he turns to mysticism's attempts to resolve such paradoxes, surveying Buddhism, Taoism, early Christianity, Theosophy, and even the philosophers at UC Berkeley under whom he studied. Finally, this brilliant comic writer alights on--surprise--comedy as the ultimate resolution of the fundamental paradoxes of life, using examples from The Big Bang Theory , Monty Python's cheese shop sketch, and many other pop-culture sources.
Finally Kaplan delves deeper into what this means, from how our physical brains work to his own personal confrontations with life's biggest questions: If we're all going to die, what's the point of anything? What is a perfect moment? What can you say about God? Or Santa?
嬉皮笑脸的讲哲学
评分近乎准确地描述出了哲学之路上一些必然遇到的困境……总之,Bazinga~
评分#Part 3 Comedy写得很有趣!
评分嬉皮笑脸的讲哲学
评分我们的社会是由各种心照不宣的密约构成的,其中充满了自相矛盾的谎言。发疯的人不过是在对自己撒谎。
Does Santa Exist? 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书