被誉为“灵魂的导师,心灵的道友”的慧敏,在哈佛大学求学时,疯狂怀念母语,于是开始用推特记录自己日常生活中的感悟,用母语与人交流。没想到,这些简单的文字,不仅让自己感到安慰,那些无意中看到日志的人,也纷纷留言说获得了 疗愈。他们开始试着理解那些不能原谅的人,决心从现在起爱惜不争气的自己,筋疲力尽地下班后,又突然精神百倍。通过与网友的交流,他也了解到,每天只睡四小时的创业者的煎熬,因学习压力过大想要自杀的学生的痛苦,面临毕业和失业的青年的苦闷。原来, 每个人都活得如此艰难。 他希望《人生那么长,停一下又何妨》,能够给那些感觉终日被生存压力驱赶的人,那些追求轻松生活却不得的人,那些因自己的不如意去怨恨别人的人,那些期盼着真爱的人,带来哪怕只有一点点的,帮助。
Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of westernphilosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. "Basic Writings"offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker'swritings in one volume, including: "The Origin of the Work of Art";"The introduction to Being and Time"; "What Is Metaphysics?";"Letter on Humanism"; "The Question Concerning Technology"; "TheWay to Language"; and, "The End of Philosophy". Featuring aforeword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman, this essentialcollection provides readers with a concise introduction to thegroundbreaking philosophy of this brilliant and essentialthinker.
Written during the golden age of Chinese philosophy, andcomposed partly in prose and partly in verse, the Tao TeChing is surely the most terse and economical of the world’sgreat religious texts. In a series of short, profound chapters itelucidates the idea of the Tao, or the Way–an idea that in itsethical, practical, and spiritual dimensions has become essentialto the life of China’s enormously powerful civilization. In theprocess of this elucidation, Lao-tzu both clarifies and deepensthose central religious mysteries around which our life on earthrevolves.
In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant’s aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She analyzes Kant's account of imaginative freedom and the relation between imaginative free play and human social and moral development, showing various ways in which his aesthetics of disinterested reflection produce moral interests. She situates these aspects of his aesthetic theory within the context of German aesthetics of the eighteenth century, arguing that Kant’s contribution is a bridge between early theories of aesthetic moral education and the early Romanticism of the last decade of that century. In so doing, her book brings the two most important German philosophers of Enlightenment and Romanticism, Kant and Novalis, into dialogue. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in both Kant studies and German philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jane Kneller is a knowledgeable and perceptive scholar both of Kant and of ea