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发表于2024-10-03
Does Santa Exist? pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa--from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang Theory
Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth about old St. Nick becomes a deeply insightful, laugh-out-loud discussion of the way some things exist but may not really be there. Just like Santa and his reindeer.
Even after we outgrow the jolly fellow, the essential paradox persists: There are some things we dearly believe in that are not universally acknowledged as real. In Does Santa Exist? Kaplan shows how philosophy giants Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein strove to smooth over this uncomfortable meeting of the real and unreal--and failed. From there he turns to mysticism's attempts to resolve such paradoxes, surveying Buddhism, Taoism, early Christianity, Theosophy, and even the philosophers at UC Berkeley under whom he studied. Finally, this brilliant comic writer alights on--surprise--comedy as the ultimate resolution of the fundamental paradoxes of life, using examples from The Big Bang Theory , Monty Python's cheese shop sketch, and many other pop-culture sources.
Finally Kaplan delves deeper into what this means, from how our physical brains work to his own personal confrontations with life's biggest questions: If we're all going to die, what's the point of anything? What is a perfect moment? What can you say about God? Or Santa?
ERIC KAPLAN is a co-executive producer of (and writer for) the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory . Previously he wrote for the Late Show with David Letterman , Futurama (for which he won an Emmy Award), and Flight of the Conchords . Kaplan graduated from Harvard and is currently completing his PhD dissertation in philosophy at UC Berkeley.
我们的社会是由各种心照不宣的密约构成的,其中充满了自相矛盾的谎言。发疯的人不过是在对自己撒谎。
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评分前面三章挺好 后面Ari那看得脑壳疼
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连续两个清晨,我读了一本幽默烧脑的哲学书。 书名很搞笑,叫做《本书书名无法描述本书内容》,是《生活大爆炸》编剧兼执行制片人卡普兰所著,哈哈,刚见到这本书书名时,我怀疑了下自己的智商。 全篇围绕“圣诞老人到底存不存在”这一矛盾点,用逻辑、宗教神秘主义、幽默等几...
评分如果不是因为作者是big bang theory的编剧,我想不出可以读这本书的理由~内容东拼西凑,翻译也不是太吸引人~~有点点小失落~~
评分如果不是因为作者是big bang theory的编剧,我想不出可以读这本书的理由~内容东拼西凑,翻译也不是太吸引人~~有点点小失落~~
评分如果不是因为作者是big bang theory的编剧,我想不出可以读这本书的理由~内容东拼西凑,翻译也不是太吸引人~~有点点小失落~~
评分Does Santa Exist? pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024