Bertrand Russell Wisdom of the West(西方的智慧)
定 價:88 元
- 作者:[英] 羅素 著
- 出版時間:2013/2/26
- ISBN:9787511701251
- 出 版 社:中央編譯出版社
- 中圖法分類:B5
- 頁碼:583
- 紙張:膠版紙
- 版次:1
- 開本:16K
《西方的智慧(英文版)(套裝共2冊)》是一本以通俗、淺近的現(xiàn)代語體寫成的西方文明史,誠如《西方的智慧(英文版)(套裝共2冊)》的副標(biāo)題所揭示的,是在自希臘城邦政體以迄于今的政治、歷史這個大背景下探討整個西方文明演進(jìn)的脈絡(luò),旁及科學(xué)、宗教、經(jīng)濟(jì)乃至社會習(xí)俗,無所不包、無所不備。此悸完成后,羅素又在友人的幫助下,在文中插入數(shù)百幅精美的插圖,其中有許多具有很高的文獻(xiàn)價值,因而,讀者完全可以將其視為西方文明的一幅全景圖。
寫作《西方的智慧》時,羅素已年逾八旬,可以說,這是一個智慧老人一生研讀西方文明的結(jié)晶,因而,有人恰當(dāng)?shù)貙⒋藭暈閷W(xué)習(xí)西方文化的入門書。
著名作家王小波生前曾對插圖本的英文版《西方的智慧》嘆賞不置。
Bertrand Russell(1872-1970),was a British philosopher,logician,mathematician,historian,religious skeptic,social reformer,socialist and pacifist.Althoughhe spent the majority of his life in England,hewas born in Wales,where he also died.Russell led the British"revolt againstidealism"in the early 1900s and is consideredone of the founders of analytic philosophyalong with his protege Wittgenstein and hiselder Frege.He was a prominent anti-waractivist,championing free trade between nationsand anti-imperialism.Russell was imprisonedfor his pacifist activism during World War I,campaigned against Adolf Hitler,for nucleardisarmament,criticised Soviet totalitarianismand the United States of America's involvementin the Vietnam War.In 1950,Russell wasawarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,"inrecognition of his varied and significantwritings in which he champions humanitarianideals and freedom of thought."
《西方的智慧(英文版) Ⅰ》
FOREWORD
PROLOGUE
BEFORE SOCRATES
ATHENS
HELLENISM
EARLY CHRISTIANITY
SCHOLASTICISM
RISE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY
BRITISH EMPIRICISM
ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM
UTILITARIANISM AND SINCE
CONTEMPORARY
EPILOGUE
《西方的智慧(英文版) Ⅱ》
Greece proper is rugged in aspect as well as in climate. The countryis divided by barren mountain ranges. Passage by land from valley tovalley is difficult. Separate communities grew up in the fertile plains,and when the land no longer could carry their numbers, some would setout across the sea to found colonies. From the middle of the eighth tothe middle of the sixth century B.C. the shores of Sicilv Southern Italy,and the Black Sea became dotted with Greek cities. With the rise ofcolonies trade developed, and the Greeks came into renewed contactwith the East.
Politicall-D post-Dorian Greece underwent a regular sequence ofchanges beginning with kingship. Gradually power came into the handsof the aristocracy, which in turn was followed by a period ofnon-hereditary monarchs or tyrants. In the end, political power fell tothe citizens, which is the literal meaning of 'democracy'. Tyranny anddemocracy henceforth alternate. Pure democracy may work so long asall the citizens can be gathered into the market place. In our time itsurvives only in a few of the smaller cantons of Switzerland. The earliest and greatest literary monument of the .Greek world isthe work of Homer. About the man we know nothing definite. Someeven think there was a line of poets later called by this name. At allevents, the two great Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssev seemto have been completed by about 8oo B.C. The Trojan War, aroundwhich the poems turn, took place shortly after Jzoo B.C. We thus havea post-Dorian account ofa pre-Dorian event, and hence a certain amountof inconsistencv, In their present form, the poems go back to therecession of Peisistratus, the Athenian tyrant of the sixth century B.C.Much of the brutality of the earlier period has been softened in Homer,though traces of it survive. The poems indeed reflect the rationalattitudes of an emancipated ruling class. Bodies are cremated, not buriedas we know they were in Mycenaean times.
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