苏格拉底的困惑

by Robert Nozick, 罗伯特·诺齐克, 郭建玲 (Translator)

罗伯特·诺齐克是我们时代最杰出的哲学家之一，他用他的原创性、力量和开阔的学术视野，令 人叹为观止的分析能力，以及生动活泼的学术风格，向人们展示：研究哲学和阅读哲学是如此快乐的一件事。

本书收入诺齐克的22篇哲学论文、书评及哲学小说，文体各异，时间跨度三十余年，从不同角度、不同阶段展示了诺齐克“苏格拉底式”的对真理追寻探索的精神。

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Political Science, Essays

492 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Nozick was an American philosopher and professor at Harvard University. He was educated at Columbia (A.B. 1959, summa cum laude), where he studied with Sidney Morgenbesser, at Princeton (Ph.D. 1963), and Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. He was a prominent American political philosopher in the 1970s and 1980s. He did additional but less influential work in such subjects as decision theory and epistemology. His Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) was a libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, published in 1971. He was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from Russia, and married the American poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg. Nozick died in 2002 after a prolonged struggle with cancer. His remains are interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Rambling Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

nozick seems overrated as a philosopher.

[mk.miles_ · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of essays from Nozick over the years. In general it feels a bit disjointed since there's no overriding theme or mission here, nor is there really any consistency. Magazine excerpts appear next to full academic papers which sit next to 'philosophical fictions'.

Bits of it are a total yawn fest, some of it is just lazy short pieces with no substance. However other bits of it are incredibly fun, especially the stuff on Newcomb's paradox. If you're interested in Newcomb's problem you should definitely buy this book.

[Harold Ogle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Extremely pedestrian philosophy; I was disappointed overall.