Harry G. Frankfurt is a professor of philosophy emeritus at Princeton University. His books include The Reasons of Love; Necessity, Volition, and Love; and The Importance of What We Care About. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, 'we have no theory'. Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
李敖在《中国性研究》里面讲过这样一个有趣的笑话: 兄弟二人,赴京赶考,兄中状元,弟弟落第。弟弟先返乡,弟媳不乐。入夜,弟弟语其妻曰:“别以为考上状元有什么好,考上后,那话儿就没有了!”弟媳信以为真,破涕为笑,反倒庆幸自己丈夫落第。第二天,偷偷告诉嫂嫂,说哥...
评分河南淇县的摘星台公园有块“扯淡碑”。古碑阳面的最上面有四个横字,“再不来了”,中间竖着刻“泰极仙翁脱骨处”,“泰”字一边一个“扯”,一边一个“淡”。阴面刻,“翁,燕人,水木氏,明末甲申访道云梦修真。翁生不言寿,莫考其纪。”淇县有个老人,退了休开始研究这古碑...
评分这也许是一个难以接受的现实,但无法否认的是,我们生活在一个充满废话的社会里。 有些时候,废话是人际沟通的润滑剂,没有这些废话,大家都会觉得很尴尬。我们可以设想这样一个情境:你与一个点头之交同乘一趟电梯,除你们之外没有其他人,你会说些什么呢?天气、着装、要去...
评分“扯淡不是说谎,却是真理最大的敌人 2008年最具颠覆性的作品 台湾最火辣的批评家南方朔 亲自翻译 大陆最正宗的哲学家赵汀阳 作序推荐 全美非虚构类第一畅销书 和《魔鬼经济学》一样颠覆你的成见 和《世界是平的》一样改变你的世界观” 这个介绍是...
评分刚读完《论扯淡》。 一本绝对变态的书。 且慢,绝非变相的夸赞这本书无比绝妙酣畅淋漓的谈论这对事。这是我在当当网买到的书最为意外的一本。书很薄,这也罢了,为了显厚,外加一硬皮包装,又来一腰封,扯掉硬皮包装后。Oh,my god!还有一厚厚的红色封皮,上书三个大字“论扯...
很小的一本
评分很小的一本
评分在Strand底楼一取书爬梯上坐着读完了(我是有多懒)最后大概说是我们inherently不稳定,对自己也一无所知,所以对自己sincere也不能称之为诚实…what a不可知论。想到牛津本科哲学系的面试题deceive,lie和cheat之间的不同…
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评分小书虽然意外地畅销,但是我觉得好像还不如frankfurt的访谈们好看,最重要的问题其实被悬置了。bullshit对真相的毫不在乎,使其比谎言更有害,这似乎是全书的核心,但书中的很多例证似乎正与之相左。
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