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貓哲學: 貓與生命意義

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內容簡介 以下書介取自春山出版有限公司《貓哲學: 貓與生命意義》追求幸福這種事，也只有自尋煩惱的人類才會做40年貓奴資歷的哲學教授，向主人學習生命之道人這種動物，只要活著就經常感到不安與憂懼，無論是人跟世界的關係，或是人跟自己的關係，總是充滿痛苦折磨。人類的哲學思想，有大半在討論人為何會痛苦，該怎麼避免痛苦，如何在充滿變動與失落的世界安身，如何過得幸福快樂。貓卻不同。貓不追求幸福，因為幸福就是牠們的預設狀態。這本書的主題是貓的天性，以及我們可以從中學到什麼。我們能夠從貓身上學到的，或許比過往的偉大思想家更多。本書作者葛雷是知名的政治哲學家，也是高產量的書評寫手，諾貝爾經濟學獎得主海耶克、《黑天鵝效應》作者塔雷伯都對他讚譽有加，後者更稱他是自己最尊敬的當代思想家。葛雷養貓超過四十年，他從自己對貓的觀察，以及過往哲學與文學對貓的描繪當中，娓娓道出貓的生命態度帶給人的啟示。1 貓與哲學一位愛貓的反哲學家：蒙田梅奧的旅程貓怎麼馴服人類2 貓為什麼不會努力追求快樂哲學家對於快樂的討論巴斯卡談轉移注意力賀吉與人類的墮落3 貓咪倫理學道德是一種非常奇特的慣俗斯賓諾莎論依據天性而活無我的自我中心4 人的愛相對於貓的愛莎哈的勝利明格最大的獵物對莉莉的愛蓋提諾的失蹤5 時間、死亡，以及貓的靈魂穆里的道別文明是一種否認死亡的方式被視為神明的貓6 貓與生命意義貓的天性，人的天性貓帶給我們的十項生活建議窗臺上的梅奧The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats―and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves.The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world.In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy.Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.

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作者介紹 John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-ti

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