Why Does the World Exist? pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
a low-voltage journalist who splits his time between New York and Paris. I write mainly about philosophical and scientific subjects, occasionally also producing what could charitably be described as "humor." I contribute fairly regularly to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar, etc. For about ten years I did a weekly radio spot on BBC Wales called "Living in America, with Jim Holt." I used to appear on TV now and then--William Buckley's "Firing Line," NBC News with Brokaw, CNN--but I write about such esoteric subjects that I am rarely asked anymore. For one year (1997) I was the editor of a venerable and pinkoid political magazine called The New Leader. And I have a book forthcoming on the history of the idea of the infinitesimal, "Worlds Within Worlds." I knew Andy Warhol fairly well. I have a girlfriend in Paris and a miniature dachshund named Renzo. That is undoubtedly more than you wished to know.
- 哲學
- 科普
- 美國
- 世界觀
- Philosophy
- 形而上學
- 現象學
- 偵探小說
In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times.
Whether framed philosophically as “Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?” or more colloquially as “But, Mommy, who made God?” the metaphysical mystery about how we came into existence remains the most fractious and fascinating question of all time. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt emerges with an engrossing narrative that traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. As he takes on the role of cosmological detective, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holt contends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God vs. the Big Bang. Whether interviewing a cranky Oxford philosopher, a Physics Nobel Laureate, or a French Buddhist monk, Holt pursues unexplored and often bizarre angles to this cosmic puzzle. The result is a brilliant synthesis of cosmology, mathematics, and physics—one that propels his own work to the level of philosophy itself.
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关于这个问题我之前倒是没有怎么想过，不过既然读了这本书就还是要好好的思索一番。首先说宇宙是从哪里来的？有人说是大爆炸，先是一个奇点，然后一爆炸就有了我们这个宇宙。也有人说是上帝造出来的，上帝说：“要有光”于是这个世界就诞生了，而在中国的神话传说中是盘古这个...
評分 評分 評分综合了神学、哲学、逻辑学、数学、物理生物等自然科学各个领域古今各路学者对这个世界终极命题的探索和讨论。或许这世上每个人，不论去不去思考，最后的结局都会得到答案。结局无非有与无，二选一。但这个过程是我们用尽所知所识去对未知的探索求证，可能没有结果，但不会没有...
評分这本特别的书是我不经意到手的一个意外惊喜，也是一本值得一再返回来重读的思想之书。 为什么存在万物而非一无所有？这个看似古怪的问题就是海德格尔所说的一切形而上学、也是一切哲学问题中的最终问题，也是维特根斯坦认为我们只能对其保持沉默（因为不可能回答，甚至也不可能...
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评分今年讀到的最好的英文書。我最擊賞的是作者“嚴肅的業餘愛好者”的態度。因為嚴肅所以能盡思辨的樂趣；因為是業餘愛好，所以灑脫，不必“捍衛”任何一傢之言。這和張中行先生的《禪外說禪》是相似的。作者在書中采百傢之言，卻不是為瞭取長補短，而純粹是要欣賞一道思辨的風景，贊嘆在世界起源這樣一個簡潔有力的問題上，人類的思考可以如此得多姿多彩。
评分拋磚引玉之作，作者的探索涵蓋瞭形而上學，神學，大爆炸理論，量子力學，無神論，數學，心理學。作者所引用的書單纔是無價之寶。
评分超級好看！！！！！！！！！當時在美國書店裏買的！！！一定程度上緩解瞭我的存在的睏惑！！！
评分奔著解決終極睏惑的目的去讀的，結果讀完睏惑更多瞭。嚮所有形而上學狂熱分子，執著於宇宙起源學說物理半吊子，熱愛靈修的苦行僧，智商不夠研究物理又不甘心在飯局上被理聰群嘲的文科傻小子，各類活的不耐煩的有閑分子和文藝青年強烈推薦(前提是要有一定哲學基礎。且此書為標準New Yorker式寫作風格，用詞生僻復雜但精準優雅，雖然與主題無關的廢話巨多)
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