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.
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评分人为什么要扯淡?当形势需要人们去讲他自己也不知所云的话时,当一个人有责任或机会,针对某个话题去发表超过了他对这个话题了解时,扯淡就开始了。 读《论扯淡》到这里,不禁拍案称奇:这说的不就是公司面试么?或者反过来说,面试不就(大多)是扯淡么?或者中肯地说,面试...
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...
评分普林斯顿大学哲学系前主任法兰克福教授凭借这一本薄薄的《论扯淡》(On Bullshit)成为亚马逊十大畅销作家之一,国内首个译本的译者是台湾的时评家南方朔先生。我几年前就买得一本《论扯淡》,一直没有认认真真地去阅读它。春节得空,将这本一百一十多页的小书一气读完,它也成...
评分这本书的名字会让人感兴趣,那是很自然的事情。因为我们都不可避免地认识到这样一点:我们几乎一直都在说些没有什么意义的话。 海德格尔也曾定义过这样一种叫做闲谈的东西,这种闲谈遮蔽了人本真的存在。至于我们为什么要如此说些不着边际的话,照海德格尔的意思,人们这么做无...
有趣 鲜明
评分后面太难了,看的我很难受
评分Interesting points on bullshit. Great methodology guide on how to unravel a concept as a research topic. [CRM 8102 Course reading]
评分Holy crap, can't get the point.
评分Sincerity itself is bullshit
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