Harry G. Frankfurt is a professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. His books include The Reasons of Love; Necessity, Volition, and Love; and The Importance of What We Care About. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory."
Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all.
Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
哈里.法兰克福的<论扯淡>是2005年美国的十佳畅销书,作为一本一万多字的薄书,对于精神空虚又不想看的太累的人来说,是一本不错的消遣读物.书中所描述的是我们处于一个充满各种扯淡话语的世界,这些扯淡话语没有任何的实际意义,不能作任何功,而且对人也并没有什么激励作用,但却是...
评分我喜欢没事扯淡。 扯淡不是说谎,主要是为了打发无聊的时间或者增进友情等等各种目的。 扯淡本身不是目的,只是一种轻松的手段。 我们又不是做科研,不必事事较真,否则生活还有什么乐趣。 不准吹牛扯淡的社会是残酷的。 没有吹过牛扯过蛋的人生是不完整的。 分不清扯淡和真实...
评分人为什么要扯淡?当形势需要人们去讲他自己也不知所云的话时,当一个人有责任或机会,针对某个话题去发表超过了他对这个话题了解时,扯淡就开始了。 读《论扯淡》到这里,不禁拍案称奇:这说的不就是公司面试么?或者反过来说,面试不就(大多)是扯淡么?或者中肯地说,面试...
评分花了大约两个小时看完《论扯谈》。结论是:文章不错,书就算了吧! 这个时代缺少废话少的作者,能够如本书作者这样以简洁明了风格的人进行学术研究的人实在太少了。作者的结论也如此简洁明了: ”扯谈不是说谎,却是真理最大的敌人。因为说谎的人知道何者为真,却讲的是假话...
评分前陣子看了《論扯淡》,原著名為《On Bullshit》 裏面把扯淡這一動作幾乎批判到一無是處 基本的論調為: 撒謊者知道事實的真相是什麽,旨在試圖掩蓋真相 扯淡者根本不在乎事實是什麽,就在那邊高談闊論 所以在真理面前,比起撒謊,扯淡才是...
将bullshit上升到哲学的高度
评分说屁话吹水是民主政治美德的最终表现形式。
评分sincerity itself is bullshit
评分Sincerity itself is bullshit
评分没看完,不过暂时觉得一般,,,除了书名和谈论的题目
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