书籍 Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life的封面

Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

John Gray

出版时间

2020-11-24

ISBN

9780374154110

评分

★★★★★

标签

思想

书籍介绍

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.

用户评论
cliche hubris
全篇论点大约可以概括为“猫不是人,于是猫没有人的痛楚”;子非猫安知猫之乐,至少John Gray是没有解决这个问题。 “Human beings quickly lose their humanity, whereas cats never stop being cats… how can anyone know their own nature, when human nature is so contradictory?”
“我家猫吃素” “你给它买耗子味儿的小零嘴儿吗?你带它去其他素食猫模范那儿去吗?你跟它讲道理告诉它吃肉是错的吗?” “不” “那你的猫出去玩不?” “出去” 😹😹😹
挺有意思的,讲到了很多很有意思的历史,除了有点短以外都还不错。