Reading the book, I had no trouble understanding how negative visualization could be an effective antidote against "hedonic adaptation." By imagining ourselves to be homeless, for instance, we can reset our desire for a more luxurious home and once again appreciate the roof over our head that we started taking for granted shortly after moving in.
Irvine, a professor of philosophy at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, writes that Stoicism was one of many competing philosophies (such as the Cynics and the Epicureans) that ran schools to teach a "philosophy of life" to students in ancient Greece and Rome. The Stoics were interested in leading a life of "tranquility," meaning a life free of "anger, anxiety, fear, grief, and envy." To achieve such a life the Stoics developed, in the words of historian Paul Veyne, a "paradoxical recipe for happiness," that included the practice of "negative visualization." By frequently and vividly imagining worst-case scenarios -- the death of a child, financial catastrophe, ruined health -- the Stoics believed you would learn to appreciate what you have, and curb your insatiable appetite for more material goods, social status, and other objects of desire.
『虽然当今的哲学家都倾向于把时间用来辩论玄奥的话题,但大多数古代哲学家的主要目标却是帮助普通民众过更好的生活。』 这是本书中对我触动最大的话语,也是我读这本书的初衷。近来几个月,在学业的事情敲定之后,愈发的觉得人生迷茫。对选定的专业是否会有前途,自己是不是...
评分科学来自于哲学,但是却用化约主义将复查的人生系统、世界系统试图简化为内容与结构。其实这种关于“钟与云”的论断里,对于人类本生,最重要的是遵循内心哲学,过好这一生,我们不需要再去“科学的”定义什么是好的一生,至少我们可以避免过怎么样的一生,那就是焦虑、痛苦的...
评分科学来自于哲学,但是却用化约主义将复查的人生系统、世界系统试图简化为内容与结构。其实这种关于“钟与云”的论断里,对于人类本生,最重要的是遵循内心哲学,过好这一生,我们不需要再去“科学的”定义什么是好的一生,至少我们可以避免过怎么样的一生,那就是焦虑、痛苦的...
评分一 人生哲学 威廉·欧文说,人,活着要有一套人生哲学,一套完整、连贯的人生哲学。否则呢?他说,你可能会浪费你仅有的一次生命。 欧文的这个说法中涉及两个问题。 其一,我们的人生是否需要一种哲学?我赞成欧文的说法。我认识的狗和猫,没有一只曾思考过自己狗生和猫生的意...
评分读了一半。feel like the author was distorting Stoicism for incorporating them to his self invented Stoic techniques; some quotes from ancient Stoics obviously didn't support his interpretation.
评分作者自己整理、改编的21世纪生活实用斯多葛哲学。语言不枯燥,但基本属于高中生水平。有一些好idea,但不断重复不断重复重复重复,作者是复读机还是怕读者弱智记不住他那几个一二三四啊?越到后面越看不下去。去掉这些重复的,本书可以缩水一半。
评分后面太啰嗦。也许是minimalism的始祖?预设价值是人应该追求tranquility,然后谈了negative visualisation等几个方法。消减了很多激烈情绪和欲望后,的确是和buddhism很像了,但也能感觉到christianity的影子,在倒数第三章的确谈到了二者的联系。因为相信有个god,我们的预设意义与价值就不必要随着本性放逐,而是要克服要逆向作为,为一个更高的预设价值努力
评分略啰嗦,但是理论还是很有意思的,写得也易懂
评分三星半,啰嗦了,三分之一的长度,可能更好
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