Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more--to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza's notion of conatus and Hobbes's identification of "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power." In this new book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation. Cooper's overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life. He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition, vigorous virtue, patriotism, and philosophy, but also of tyranny, imperialism, and varieties of fanaticism. But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon, either, and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter.
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總算看完瞭,沒看盧梭那部分。柏拉圖-尼采兩人作品之間的關係寫得非常抽絲剝繭、深入淺齣瞭,文字和結構也好。太建議感興趣的人看看瞭!尼采和施特勞斯,兩個在不同意義上最懂蘇格拉底的人……(相比之下我寫的就是一坨翔)
评分非常詭異的一本書,講得很神。但我自己沒弄清部分邏輯綫(因此我懷疑作者有的地方在硬拗),所以對我不是非常convincing。比他99年那本遜色一些吧
评分沒看尼采那部分。精讀瞭盧梭,啓發很大。
评分沒看尼采那部分。精讀瞭盧梭,啓發很大。 @2018-03-18 11:53:59
评分沒看尼采那部分。精讀瞭盧梭,啓發很大。 @2018-03-18 11:53:59
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