The Best Things in Life

托马斯•霍尔卡（Thomas Hurka），牛津大学哲学博士，多伦多大学哲学研究所所长，该校名誉校长，加拿大皇家协会成员，当代最具影响力的哲学家之一。著有一系列的著作，包括《美德、不道德和价值》《原则：伦理随笔》和《完美主义》等。从1989年到1992年，曾为多伦多的《环球邮报》撰写每周的伦理专栏文章。

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:Thomas Hurka

页数:208

出版时间:2010-12-17

价格:USD 18.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780195331424

图书标签:哲學表达英文版生活心灵国图有哲学倫理學

For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities bring us the most joy? While religion, literature, popular psychology, and everyday wisdom all grapple with these questions, philosophy more than anything else uses the tools of reason to make important distinctions, cut away irrelevancies, and distill these issues down to their essentials. Hurka argues that if we are to live a good life, one thing we need to know is which activities and experiences will most likely lead us to happiness and which will keep us from it, while also reminding us that happiness isn't the only thing that makes life good. Hurka explores many topics: four types of good feeling (and the limits of good feeling); how we can improve our baseline level of happiness (making more money, it turns out, isn't the answer); which kinds of knowledge are most worth having; the importance of achieving worthwhile goals; the value of love and friendship; and much more. Unlike many philosophers, he stresses that there isn't just one good in life but many: pleasure, as Epicurus argued, is indeed one, but knowledge, as Socrates contended, is another, as is achievement. And while the great philosophers can help us understand what matters most in life, Hurka shows that we must ultimately decide for ourselves. This delightfully accessible book offers timely guidance on answering the most important question any of us will ever ask: How do we live a good life?

读后感

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哲学家眼中的一切和我们看到的不一样《生命中最美好的事物》 这是一本很漂亮的小书，名字就很打动人，“生命中最美好的事物”是啊，谁不想拥有一个幸福而美好的人生，谁不想拥有生命中最美好的事物呢？ 这本书的作者是应该耶鲁大学哲学系的教授，在一个哲学家的眼中，美好幸...  

发现和邂逅生命中最好的事物，然后自由、恣意而幸福地享受它们是每一位生者终其一生都不会改变的共同追求，但是现实所呈现给我们的事实却往往与那些愿望相悖。 这么说可不是危言耸听呢。看看我们周围的人吧，被各种各样的不如意和各种各样的规矩、形式以及条条框框所制约和桎...  

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哲学家眼中的一切和我们看到的不一样《生命中最美好的事物》 这是一本很漂亮的小书，名字就很打动人，“生命中最美好的事物”是啊，谁不想拥有一个幸福而美好的人生，谁不想拥有生命中最美好的事物呢？ 这本书的作者是应该耶鲁大学哲学系的教授，在一个哲学家的眼中，美好幸...  

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I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.

I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.

I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.

I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.

I think it's just me... not good at reading academic philosophy book.