Peter Watson is the author of War on the Mind, Wisdom and Strength, The Caravaggio Conspiracy, Ideas, and The German Genius. Educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome, he has written for the Sunday Times, the Times, the New York Times, the Observer, and the Spectator. He lives in London.
In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the invention of hand-axes and explores how some of our most cherished notions might have originated before humans had language. Then, in a broad sweep, the book moves forward to consider not the battles and treaties of kings and prime ministers, emperors and generals, but the most important ideas we have evolved, by which we live and which separate us from other animals. Watson explores the first languages and the first words, the birth of the gods, the origins of art, the profound intellectual consequences of money. He describes the invention of writing, early ideas about law, why sacrifice and the soul have proved so enduring in religion. He explains how ideas about time evolved, how numbers were conceived, how science, medicine, sociology, economics, and capitalism came into being. He shows how the discovery of the New World changed forever the way that we think, and why Chinese creativity faded after the Middle Ages. In the course of this commanding narrative, Watson reveals the linkages down the ages in the ideas of many apparently disparate philosophers, astronomers, religious leaders, biologists, inventors, poets, jurists, and scores of others. Aristotle jostles with Aquinas, Ptolemy with Photius, Kalidasa with Zhu Xi, Beethoven with Strindberg, Jefferson with Freud. Ideas is a seminal work.
从始至终通读就像有一张(经纬并不规则却也不凌乱无序的)网把古今所有人类智慧的珠宝都镶嵌其上,可以让人如数家珍—从旧石器时代到20世纪的珍宝。语言、哲学、宗教、医学、数学、艺术、天文学、科学、地质学、生物学、社会学等等各种现代学科都可以在此溯源,并且找到它们与...
评分紧锣密鼓,打鱼晒网,读到了第四部。第三部读完,给《思想史》打了五星,这五星是必须的,尽管我在书评《人之为人:想象和灵魂》中略有微词。 在人类文明的进程中,“因为某种原因,过去许多人把思想史看作一个三分体系,即围绕三段思想、三个时代或三项原则进行”。不管孔德的...
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评分读这本书的时候正好在一家 P2P 公司的水深火热之中,本来风控是件很简单的事情,本来如果大家能够公开透明的交待清楚自己的工作业绩,什么事情都没有,但是当时我自己就是没有信心了, AUC 本来做到了 0.9X,也只敢对外公开 0.8X。思想史,是心灵美的历史,是可以摒弃尘世污的...
评分紧锣密鼓,打鱼晒网,读到了第四部。第三部读完,给《思想史》打了五星,这五星是必须的,尽管我在书评《人之为人:想象和灵魂》中略有微词。 在人类文明的进程中,“因为某种原因,过去许多人把思想史看作一个三分体系,即围绕三段思想、三个时代或三项原则进行”。不管孔德的...
比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
评分比较类的思想史,印象深的还是在原始概念,中古中亚范围,和现代世界的多元映象挺深,越到后面,越融合得成熟
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