Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more--to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza's notion of conatus and Hobbes's identification of "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power." In this new book, Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for self-preservation. Cooper's overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life. He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition, vigorous virtue, patriotism, and philosophy, but also of tyranny, imperialism, and varieties of fanaticism. But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon, either, and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter.
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总算看完了,没看卢梭那部分。柏拉图-尼采两人作品之间的关系写得非常抽丝剥茧、深入浅出了,文字和结构也好。太建议感兴趣的人看看了!尼采和施特劳斯,两个在不同意义上最懂苏格拉底的人……(相比之下我写的就是一坨翔)
评分没看尼采那部分。精读了卢梭,启发很大。
评分没看尼采那部分。精读了卢梭,启发很大。 @2018-03-18 11:53:59
评分非常诡异的一本书,讲得很神。但我自己没弄清部分逻辑线(因此我怀疑作者有的地方在硬拗),所以对我不是非常convincing。比他99年那本逊色一些吧
评分没看尼采那部分。精读了卢梭,启发很大。
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