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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
Filosofía y biografía de diferentes autores, Séneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer…
Fácil de leer y entretenido
Una buena introducción a la filosofía.
Fácil de leer y entretenido
Una buena introducción a la filosofía.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
“True friends do not evaluate us according to worldly criteria, it is the core self they are interested in”
If you're ever bored, or sad, or heartbroken, grab this book, Alain de botton would take care of you.
His gentle yet elegant way with words is other-worldly,
coupled with his clear method of explaining to you how the people we know by names do actually have the words we need in our lives.
Alain noticed a problem we share with philosophers, and it's that the people we know by names, collectively as philosophers, were normal and simple people who knew what they wanted, thought & wrote about it, BUT THEN came other people who glorified them to the point we.. other normal people CANNOT touch their work comfortably.
Thus, this book is the elegant opportunity, with paintings between the pages and colorful fun examples when necessary, to reintroduce the simple people as simply as they lived their lives.
A chance to admire the thought process as texts from their works is presented with a bit of the history behind it.
We're reintroduced to several philosophers, one of them is Montaigne, a random name I've heard once in a novel. But truely I spent some cozy time listening/reading about his way of thinking.. it's intimate, it's daring.. he's a very interesting individual who decided to write everything about his life in a book.. not just philosophy, but
Intimate things related to hygiene . Birthing "the essays".
Nietzsche, surprisingly, resonated so much with me when I knew that on top of his fondness of harsh and high mountains, he suffered a so much with illness, yet his very philosophy was a consolation for difficulty. To endure. To suffer and come up victorious
His gentle yet elegant way with words is other-worldly,
coupled with his clear method of explaining to you how the people we know by names do actually have the words we need in our lives.
Alain noticed a problem we share with philosophers, and it's that the people we know by names, collectively as philosophers, were normal and simple people who knew what they wanted, thought & wrote about it, BUT THEN came other people who glorified them to the point we.. other normal people CANNOT touch their work comfortably.
Thus, this book is the elegant opportunity, with paintings between the pages and colorful fun examples when necessary, to reintroduce the simple people as simply as they lived their lives.
A chance to admire the thought process as texts from their works is presented with a bit of the history behind it.
We're reintroduced to several philosophers, one of them is Montaigne, a random name I've heard once in a novel. But truely I spent some cozy time listening/reading about his way of thinking.. it's intimate, it's daring.. he's a very interesting individual who decided to write everything about his life in a book.. not just philosophy, but
Intimate things related to hygiene . Birthing "the essays".
Nietzsche, surprisingly, resonated so much with me when I knew that on top of his fondness of harsh and high mountains, he suffered a so much with illness, yet his very philosophy was a consolation for difficulty. To endure. To suffer and come up victorious
Sketches of philosophers through history as well as philosophy and its relevance to our modern lives
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
بسیار بسیار مفید و دوست داشتنی بود.
کتاب شش فصل دارد که ما در هر فصل با فیلسوفی همراه و برای مواجه با چیزی(!) با نظراتش بیشتر آشنا می‌شویم.
که به ترتیب عبارتند از:
مواجهه با عدم محبوبیت با سقراط
مواجهه با کم‌پولی با اپیکور
مواجهه با ناکامی با سنکا
مواجهه با ناتوانی و نابسندگی با مونتنی
قلب شکسته با شوپنهاور
مواجهه با سختی ها با نیچه
راستش من فکر می‌کردم که از چهار فصل اول آنقدر لذت نبرم و منتظر فصل چهارم بودم. ولی در کمال تعجب در این چهار فصل آنقدر شگت زده شدم که حد نداشت. به طوری که دلم می‌خواست همه‌ی اطرافیانم را مجبور به خواندن این کتاب کنم :دی
اما... فصل پنجم.. آخر چرا؟ :( ایراد نمی‌دانم از کتاب است که همچین ایده‌ای را انتخاب کرده یا که خب من خیلی با سوگیری، نتوانستم با ایده‌های شوپنهاور در مورد عشق کنار بیایم..
اگر آن طور که او می‌گوید باشد، که همه چیز فقط کششی برای تولد نسل بعد است، پس عشق ما به دوستانمان یا دیگر افراد چیست؟
بنظرم معنی عشق در فرهنگ لغات من با آقای شوپنهاور بسیار متفاوت است! اصلا آن عشق نیست...
که خب این یک ستاره‌ی کم شده هم برای همین مخالفت شدیدم با این فصل است :د
ترجمه بسیار خوب و روان است و جملات و پاراگراف های دوست داشتنی بسیار.
کتاب شش فصل دارد که ما در هر فصل با فیلسوفی همراه و برای مواجه با چیزی(!) با نظراتش بیشتر آشنا می‌شویم.
که به ترتیب عبارتند از:
مواجهه با عدم محبوبیت با سقراط
مواجهه با کم‌پولی با اپیکور
مواجهه با ناکامی با سنکا
مواجهه با ناتوانی و نابسندگی با مونتنی
قلب شکسته با شوپنهاور
مواجهه با سختی ها با نیچه
راستش من فکر می‌کردم که از چهار فصل اول آنقدر لذت نبرم و منتظر فصل چهارم بودم. ولی در کمال تعجب در این چهار فصل آنقدر شگت زده شدم که حد نداشت. به طوری که دلم می‌خواست همه‌ی اطرافیانم را مجبور به خواندن این کتاب کنم :دی
اما... فصل پنجم.. آخر چرا؟ :( ایراد نمی‌دانم از کتاب است که همچین ایده‌ای را انتخاب کرده یا که خب من خیلی با سوگیری، نتوانستم با ایده‌های شوپنهاور در مورد عشق کنار بیایم..
اگر آن طور که او می‌گوید باشد، که همه چیز فقط کششی برای تولد نسل بعد است، پس عشق ما به دوستانمان یا دیگر افراد چیست؟
بنظرم معنی عشق در فرهنگ لغات من با آقای شوپنهاور بسیار متفاوت است! اصلا آن عشق نیست...
که خب این یک ستاره‌ی کم شده هم برای همین مخالفت شدیدم با این فصل است :د
ترجمه بسیار خوب و روان است و جملات و پاراگراف های دوست داشتنی بسیار.
The pictures are usually funny, and the Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzche chapters are interesting, and the biographical information is much funnier and insightful than the typical introduction to one of these thinkers' works. The others can be sort of too clever at times, especially the Schopenhauer one, which is maybe more Schopenhauer's fault than Botton's.
From a feminist perspective, the all-male philosophers in here, aided by the sometimes-bro-y Botton, make some pretty broad generalizations here that rely on some serious male privilege. But again, maybe this is more philosophy's problem than Botton's.
From a feminist perspective, the all-male philosophers in here, aided by the sometimes-bro-y Botton, make some pretty broad generalizations here that rely on some serious male privilege. But again, maybe this is more philosophy's problem than Botton's.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
DNF@17%, may get back to his later.
1. I understand the lure of taking Philosophy, a notoriously unworldly subject, and trying to relate it to life and moral principles as we know it today. Unfortunately, I am really not looking for guidance from long dead philosophers, and though the description of the Socratic method was interesting I really wish it had stuck to that instead of the whole "what can we learn from this" thing.
2. May get back to it later, but the book club has moved on to something else and I don't have enough interest to complete this on my own.
1. I understand the lure of taking Philosophy, a notoriously unworldly subject, and trying to relate it to life and moral principles as we know it today. Unfortunately, I am really not looking for guidance from long dead philosophers, and though the description of the Socratic method was interesting I really wish it had stuck to that instead of the whole "what can we learn from this" thing.
2. May get back to it later, but the book club has moved on to something else and I don't have enough interest to complete this on my own.