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.
“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...
评分我喜欢没事扯淡。 扯淡不是说谎,主要是为了打发无聊的时间或者增进友情等等各种目的。 扯淡本身不是目的,只是一种轻松的手段。 我们又不是做科研,不必事事较真,否则生活还有什么乐趣。 不准吹牛扯淡的社会是残酷的。 没有吹过牛扯过蛋的人生是不完整的。 分不清扯淡和真实...
评分翻看中央翻译出版社的《一桩事先张扬的凶杀案》,前言中有这样的文字: -------------------------------- ……辛辣的嘲讽了权贵,无情的揭露和批判了愚昧无知的封建礼教、封建思想、封建观念、封建迷信和仇杀行为,从一个侧面较为深刻的揭示了拉丁美洲的社会现实。这便是这篇...
评分任何人,也不能阻止我去吃屎,我吃我的屎,这是我的个人权利。谁说屎不可以吃,你们曾吃过吗?休想把你们的观念强加于我,我是自由的,我想吃就可以去吃,不受任何人的干涉。谢谢。你不吃屎,你是不对的。草木吃了屎,茁壮生长,猪牛吃了草,才能变成猪肉和牛肉,给你做红烧肉...
评分“论装逼”;“‘操’是万字之母” 都是骗银地 @ 2008-5-28 13:56:49 阅读(5035) 引用通告 分类: 指东打西 http://www.bullog.cn/blogs/huajiadi/archives/141756.aspx “虽然我七岁的时候我爹就死了,但至今我仍然清楚地记得他,也清楚地记得他和我说过的很多事。。。...
sincerity itself is bullshit
评分lol
评分尼玛就是GRE阅读,难以相信这本书竟然是纽约时报畅销书。买了的人肯定都后悔买了这么一本把bullshit作为主题的学术著作。
评分尼玛就是GRE阅读,难以相信这本书竟然是纽约时报畅销书。买了的人肯定都后悔买了这么一本把bullshit作为主题的学术著作。
评分从Max Black与Wittgenstein出发区分若干概念。
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有