Phishing for Phools
Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize–winning e...
Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize–winning e...
"The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today's best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it." It used to be that to diagnose an illness, i...
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本书是阿兰·布鲁姆《爱与友谊》第三部分。作者在讨论完卢梭、莎士比亚之后,回溯到柏拉图。柏拉图的《会饮》致力于探究爱欲。这位爱的古代哲人,他不但与莎士比亚一样忠于自然,而且还通过一个比戏剧更宽的光谱来表述爱欲,并对其意义作了一番更为贴切的理性论述。他不但把爱欲呈现为一个表明我们自身不完满的痛苦而贫乏的信号,他还把它呈现为是一个给予的、创造性的信号。他探索了“爱自己”与“爱美好事物”间的张...