这是一次引人入胜的、富有启发性的悲伤探索——以及为什么尽管痛苦重重，但它也能帮助我们成长
当我们所爱的人或对我们重要的人去世时经历悲伤——这是痛苦的，也是普遍的——是人类状况的核心。然而，令人惊讶的是，哲学家很少深入研究悲伤。在《悲伤》一书中，迈克尔·乔尔比对这一复杂的情感事件进行了开创性的哲学探索，提供了关于什么是悲伤、我们为谁悲伤以及悲伤如何最终引导我们更丰富地自我理解和更充分地实现人性的有价值的新见解。
根据心理学、社会科学、文学以及哲学，乔尔比解释说，我们为失去那些我们的身份被赋予的人感到悲痛，包括我们个人不认识但无论如何都珍惜的人，比如公众人物。他们的死亡不仅剥夺了我们有价值的经历；它们还破坏了我们的承诺和价值观。然而，悲伤是我们应该拥抱而不是避免的事情，是美好而有意义生活的重要组成部分。乔尔比说，理解这一悖论的关键在于，悲伤为我们提供了一个独特而强大的机会，通过塑造新的身份，让我们在自我认识中成长。尽管悲伤可能会让人感到混乱和迷失方向，但它也反映了我们独特的人类能力，即随着我们所依赖的关系的发展而理性地适应。
悲伤是一个关于悲伤是如何工作的以及为什么它如此重要的原始描述，它展示了这种经历的痛苦是如何给我们一个机会来加深我们与他人和我们自己的关系的。
Grief: A Philosophical Guide
An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief―and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow
Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us―as universal as it is painful―is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief is, whom we grieve, and how grief can ultimately lead us to a richer self-understanding and a fuller realization of our humanity.
Drawing on psychology, social science, and literature as well as philosophy, Cholbi explains that we grieve for the loss of those in whom our identities are invested, including people we don’t know personally but cherish anyway, such as public figures. Their deaths not only deprive us of worthwhile experiences; they also disrupt our commitments and values. Yet grief is something we should embrace rather than avoid, an important part of a good and meaningful life. The key to understanding this paradox, Cholbi says, is that grief offers us a unique and powerful opportunity to grow in self-knowledge by fashioning a new identity. Although grief can be tumultuous and disorienting, it also reflects our distinctly human capacity to rationally adapt as the relationships we depend on evolve.
An original account of how grieving works and why it is so important, Grief shows how the pain of this experience gives us a chance to deepen our relationships with others and ourselves.
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