Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
The universal voice of mankind is always declaring that justice and virtue are honourable, but grievous and toilsome; and that the pleasures of vice and injustice are easy of attainment, and are only censured by law and opinion. They say also that honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty; and they are quite ready to call wicked men happy, and to honour them both in public and private when they are rich or in any other way influential, while they despise and overlook those who may be weak and poor, even though acknowledging them to be better than the others.
Plato/Plátōn
作者: Will Durant
本書包含了各種西方哲理思想與理念,包括唯心、唯物、唯意志論;經驗主義、先驗主義、宿命論、自由意志等等,內容豐富但艱深,並不是哲學的入門書籍。
我有很多地方都看不懂,但這都不太重要,對我來說閱讀其中的一個樂趣,就是當對其中一兩個哲學思想有些少領悟時,會覺得好像可以跟這些哲學家討論,好奇心會驅使你去找尋屬於你自己的哲學,就像嬰孩去探索身邊的世界。
作者介紹了古今中外多位影響世界的西方哲學家,已他們的生平和著作去剖析他們的哲學思想,最後作者會總結這些理念並以例子去帶出這此哲學思想可以與不可以解決的問題。
這些哲學家包括:
可能是因為書中覆蓋的哲學思想比較深入,我看的這個譯本感覺不太順暢,有機會買原作看看。
Reference: Wikipedia – The Story of Philosophy
作者: 小川仁志
其實這書比 Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? 更早看完,一直未有時間整理。
哲學其實與生活係息息相關,但很多人可能在經歷人生的時候從未想過,作者小川仁志將這些與生活不可分割的問題交給不同的哲學老師去解答,或者可以幫到你。
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato/Plátōn