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Bezig met laden... What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (origineel 1987; editie 2004)door Thomas Nagel (Autore)
Informatie over het werkWat betekent het allemaal ? een korte inleiding in de filosofie door Thomas Nagel (1987)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This seems more targeted to a highschool crowd who haven't engaged with philosophy at all. It's pedagogically laid out as a journey through most common philosophical topics from how we can know anything at all to theories about life and death. ( ) ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ - ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐ Ho โincontratoโ Nagel per la prima volta nel 1987 mentre leggevo un altro libro davvero bellissimo: Lโio della mente curato da Duglas R. Hofstadter e Daniel C. Dennet. I testi del libro ruotavano tutti intorno a un unico tema: la coscienza. Nagel era presente con un articolo dal titolo curioso: Cosa si prova ad essere un pipistrello? In questa introduzione provocatoriamente brevissima alla filosofia, Nagel affronta con un linguaggio semplicissimo vari temi fondamentali, anzi, I Temi: la coscienza di se e degli altri, il pensiero, la consapevolezza, la giustizia, la morte, il senso della vita. Non รจ un manuale, non ci si trovano risposte, non si trova alcun riferimento ai grandi del pensiero. ร un libro che potrebbe essere letto in tram o in aereo sollevando ogni tanto lo sguardo a riflettere su proprio se riflesso nel finestrino. You want I should tell you what it all means, now that I finished the book? So, if I did, you could then say, "That's it? Why should I care?" Or "What does it mean that that's what it all means?" In other words, a meaning found in a book is just a meaning found in a book. That's not a fault of the book, though. Nagel gives this very argument. I'll admit I went into this less naive than the intended audience. It was written for people who never asked these questions in the first place. I couldn't tell you whether one of those people would find this book a wake-up call to the examined life. The fact that they picked it up in the first place would mean they were already primed for it. This, by the way, is the core of what I call the Goodread's Paradox: the distortion in ratings caused by the fact that readers aren't reviewing at random but are evaluating just those books toward which they are already disposed to find interesting. Someone picking up Nagel and expecting a romantic comedy would give it only 1 star. And, indeed, my only real complaint about the book is that Nagel doesn't sufficiently question what he is reading into to his observations. Yes, he treats the topics of solipsism and materialism but he doesn't ask whether those topics themselves reflect a bias that could, if not be escaped, at least be seen as an inescapable bias for him (though perhaps not for someone else with different inescapable biases) and whether the self is just that, a bias, which keeps one from a "view from nowhere" (a book of his I promise to return to.) Major philosophical questions in a nutshell, just in case you did not formulate them quite like that yourself. One could spend years thinking and discussing any and each of them, but here they are introduced in a very simple, natural and partly entertaining way, for us to do as we please and chew on them intermittently. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly, Thomas Nagel considers possible solutions to nine problems--knowledge of the world beyond our minds, knowledge of other minds, the mind-body problem, free will, the basis of morality, right and wrong, the nature of death, the meaning of life, and the meaning of words. Although he states his own opinions clearly, Nagel leaves these fundamental questions open, allowing students to entertain other solutions and encouraging them to think for themselves. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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