在这本聪明而及时的书中，著名的道德哲学家西塞拉·博克思考了幸福的本质，以及它在历代哲学思考和写作中的地位。博克以微妙而优雅的方式探索了从希腊哲学家到德斯蒙德·图图、查尔斯·达尔文、艾里斯·默多克和达赖喇嘛的幸福概念，以及心理学家、经济学家、遗传学家和神经科学家提出的最新理论。博克避开了抽象的理论，从普通人和知名人士那里收集了大量关于幸福的第一手观察资料。这很可能是迄今为止最完整的幸福画面。
这本书也是清晰而敏感地思考幸福的号角。把非常不同的学科结合在一起，为Bok提供了一个独特的机会来考虑幸福在更广泛的问题中的作用：我们应该如何领导我们的生活和对待彼此的关注，而这些问题往往不在今天的幸福等式中。我们现在和未来应该如何追求、衡量、重视或限制自己或他人的幸福？令人信服的、敏锐的、探索幸福的方式为人类状况的核心带来了令人欢迎的新曙光。
在这本聪明而及时的书中，著名的道德哲学家西塞拉·博克思考了幸福的本质，以及它在历代哲学思考和写作中的地位。博克以微妙而优雅的方式探索了从希腊哲学家到德斯蒙德·图图、查尔斯·达尔文、艾里斯·默多克和达赖喇嘛的幸福概念，以及心理学家、经济学家、遗传学家和神经科学家提出的最新理论。博克避开了抽象的理论，从普通人和知名人士那里收集了大量关于幸福的第一手观察资料。这很可能是迄今为止最完整的幸福画面。
这本书也是清晰而敏感地思考幸福的号角。把非常不同的学科结合在一起，为Bok提供了一个独特的机会来考虑幸福在更广泛的问题中的作用：我们应该如何领导我们的生活和对待彼此的关注，而这些问题往往不在今天的幸福等式中。我们现在和未来应该如何追求、衡量、重视或限制自己或他人的幸福？令人信服的、敏锐的、探索幸福的方式为人类状况的核心带来了令人欢迎的新曙光。
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science
In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness—from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu, Charles Darwin, Iris Murdoch, and the Dalai Lama—as well as the latest theories advanced by psychologists, economists, geneticists, and neuroscientists. Eschewing abstract theorizing, Bok weaves in a wealth of firsthand observations about happiness from ordinary people as well as renowned figures. This may well be the most complete picture of happiness yet.
This book is also a clarion call to think clearly and sensitively about happiness. Bringing together very different disciplines provides Bok with a unique opportunity to consider the role of happiness in wider questions of how we should lead our lives and treat one another—concerns that don’t often figure in today’s happiness equation. How should we pursue, weigh, value, or limit our own happiness, or that of others, now and in the future? Compelling and perceptive, Exploring Happiness shines a welcome new light on the heart of the human condition.
In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness—from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu, Charles Darwin, Iris Murdoch, and the Dalai Lama—as well as the latest theories advanced by psychologists, economists, geneticists, and neuroscientists. Eschewing abstract theorizing, Bok weaves in a wealth of firsthand observations about happiness from ordinary people as well as renowned figures. This may well be the most complete picture of happiness yet.
This book is also a clarion call to think clearly and sensitively about happiness. Bringing together very different disciplines provides Bok with a unique opportunity to consider the role of happiness in wider questions of how we should lead our lives and treat one another—concerns that don’t often figure in today’s happiness equation. How should we pursue, weigh, value, or limit our own happiness, or that of others, now and in the future? Compelling and perceptive, Exploring Happiness shines a welcome new light on the heart of the human condition.
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