An original work from a preeminent professor of philosophy at Harvard University, in which happiness, dying, creativity, religious faith, sexuality, good and evil, the ideal and the real, are explored in the grand Socratic tradition. Now in paperback, this bestseller will appeal to anyone concerned with inner transformation and personal growth.
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The author states that by examining his understanding of dying, sex, love, the Holocaust, politics, and other topics, they bring forth ideas, questions, and statements, and that the subjects automatically project into the mind.
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Von Al Kihano
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...and far from ok if you don't. Nozick's book has a tendency toward sentimentality, but I do think he is to be applauded for trying to take on these issues. So rarely does a philosopher write about things that really matter to us, like love or death or family or sex. I suppose the price you pay for writing about human issues like these is a sacrifice of rigour and an unfortunate tendency to sound like a self-help book.
Nevertheless, the book is worth reading, if only because it reminds us where philosophy comes from and why we think in the first place. I disagreed with Nozick often and consider some of the chapters puff pieces, but I must admit that it's been a long time since I read a contemporary philosophical work that made me consider changing the way I think and act.
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I wish more philosophers of Nozick's stature would share their thoughts about the things that matter most to them, and us. A book like this took courage to write, and I found it wonderfully stimulating. This book is a great example of how a philosopher's approach to life can yield practical insights into such topics as religious faith, marriage, love, sexuality, etc. A great book.
Von Keith Levenberg
Format:Taschenbuch
I admire Nozick greatly, and he is one of the only philosophers I continue to read now that I've graduated college. This book is probably his best book to read "for pleasure," and as there are few contemporary philosophy books that fall into this category, this one seems like an important buy for that reason alone. Unfortunately, the ideas for most of the essays here are quite a bit more interesting than how they actually turn out. Some topics promised real intrigue, only to degenerate into mush (some) or academic gobbledygook (others). (The essay on the Holocaust is, however, a real gem.) I subtract a second star because this book is also infamous for Nozick's recanting of quite a bit of his philosophy from _Anarchy, State, and Utopia_, his most important book. He was more convincing his first time around. After spending years and years being one of the only philosophers in the universities to defend libertarianism, Nozick appears to have let his colleagues bully him into selling himself out. This might earn him a few more friends in the People's Republic of Cambridge, but long-time admirers have been seriously let down. Nevertheless, the book is very ambitious. It falls a bit short of its promise, but really gets one thinking and expands the scope of what philosophy offers. On balance, not bad at all.
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A great book , as long as you aren't a philosophy prof
While I apparently don't have depth of some of the other reviewers, I got a tremendous amount out of this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. April 2000 von "khadaji"
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A shame
This book is a disapointment. Although Nozick is one of the best contemporary philosophers, he wrote a self-help book! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. August 1999 veröffentlicht
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Very disappointing. I expected something better from Nozick.
Here's what this book is: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A trifling book. I had an impression that profs, even philosophical ones, are supposed to write books only... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. August 1999 veröffentlicht
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An embarrassment.
This book is the attempt of one of the sharpest American philosophers to make some personal statements about life, or as he would have it, about philosophy. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Juli 1998 von "qironzh"
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