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.
用三天时间,读到《思想史》的第二部第10节。 因为有一套《最伟大的思想家》,还有一套《中国历代思想家》,所以对本书特别感兴趣。 前者,读到涉及相关作者的书时,零星的读过。因为知识储备不够,没有系统的读。而后者,疫情前就通读过。 之前,还读过《全球通史》,《西方哲...
評分这种摘册成史的书特别适合我等人文知识素养浅薄的人来看。 因为本质是讲历史所以故事性很强,历史故事本身就很有趣啊!结构稳重分明有起伏,语言精准朴实,每章节主线清晰并逐渐展开本书的总主题,于是伴随着作者的引导有种像是探索故事的情境,很有听说书和探险小说的乐趣。 ...
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評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...
評分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...
比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
评分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
评分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
评分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
评分比較類的思想史,印象深的還是在原始概念,中古中亞範圍,和現代世界的多元映象挺深,越到後麵,越融閤得成熟
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