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2024-05-17
Does Santa Exist? 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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 评分其实英文原版叫《Does Santa Exist?》圣诞老人存在吗?中文翻译为了哗众取宠,取了这么个不靠谱的名字,不过这些年出版商为了迎合市场,书名早就越来越糟糕了,出版商们忘记了,好的公司不是去迎合市场,应该是去引导市场。时尚亦如此。 抛开书名的翻译问题不说,书的内容也...
评分《本书书名无法描述本书内容》的作者Eric Kaplan,是《生活大爆炸》的编剧兼执行制片人。毕业于哈佛大学,目前正在加州大学伯克利分校攻读哲学博士学位。把《Does Santa Exist?》译成《本书书名无法描述本书内容》应该纯粹处于哗众取宠的商业考量,但是不得不说这是一个失败的...
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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?
关于逻辑,我可能现在看不懂
评分一本哲学小书,因为作者是《生活大爆炸》的编剧才看的。如何对待矛盾?如何看待古老的传说信仰?作者说逻辑和神秘主义都不好用,喜剧、幽默才是正经。最后论述了犹太卡巴拉派思想,还有无处不在的神经科学。#推荐给爱思考的人
评分浅显有趣
评分其实看的是中文版,但是中文版书名好像影响了评分……真的非常喜欢,我觉得是会同样在不断试图与世界(而不仅仅是理论和思想)建立连接的人可以感同身受的。我们一开始试图用理性或者信仰去解决矛盾,后来用幽默去调和矛盾,最终我们开始创造矛盾,并在其中更深地认知和连接。
评分本书围绕着does Santa really exist这个主线来展开讲一些基本的哲学概念 很有趣的思维爆炸 当然有些地方也比较啰嗦 和santa的衔接和略显生硬 4星!!
Does Santa Exist? 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书