The Socrates Express
- Автор: Вейнер Эрик
- Год: 2020
- Язык: английский
- Год: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
- Жанр: География, путевые заметки
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We contemplate for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty and find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope.
Eric Weiner, *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Geography of Bliss* , combines his twin passions for philosophy and global travel in a pilgrimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from philosophers around the world, from Marcus Aurelius to Arthur Schopenhauer, Confucius to Montaigne. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport) he traversed thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi,...
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Index
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Page numbers beginning with 289 refer to endnotes.
Absurdism, 264–66
acceptance, 110–11, 224, 231, 236, 264, 265
of aging, 245, 255–56, 258
of death, 279–80
accidental philosopher, 274
Adagio for Strings (Barber), 91
Adams, John, 224
adversity, 225, 234–35, 239–42
Aeschylus, 275
aesthetic moment, perception and, 83–84
aesthetics, 83–84, 87, 222
author’s view of, 197–98
Schopenhauer’s hierarchy of, 87–88, 94
senses in, 192–94
affective synesthesia, 212
afterlife, 172, 274
aging, 243–67, 272
collision with, 243–46, 280–81
as cultural, 254
fear and denial of, 243–47, 258
top ten ways of, 258–67
agrégation exam, 252
ahimsa (nonviolence), 157
air pollution, 145, 147, 162, 167–68
Alcibiades, 18
Alcott, Amos Bronson, 57
“Allegory of the Cave, The” (Plato), 77–78
All Men Are Mortal (Beauvoir), 281
Allport, Alan, 124
All Said and Done (Beauvoir), 260
altruism, 146, 226–27
Amato, Joseph, 49
amor fati (love of fate), 212
amour-propre (self-love), 44–45
Analects of Confucius, The, 57, 170, 173–74, 177, 297
anger, 46–47, 226, 230–31
answers, 31–32
anthropology, 253
anti-Semitism, 218
anxiety, 86, 226
aplastic anemia, 240–41
appreciation, 183–99
appropriateness, perfection vs., 189
archaeology, 34–35
Archimedes, 46
Aristotle, 7, 184, 223
Armstrong, Karen, 33
Arnold, Edwin, 154
artificial intelligence, 224
arts, 217, 287
commerce and, 127
as liberation, 83–84
as reprieve from pessimism, 87
truth and, 213
asceticism, 83, 97, 217
Asclepius, 37
ashrams, 143, 152, 153, 158, 166
ataraxia (lack of disturbance), 107, 115, 116, 140
Athens, 17, 19–21, 34–35, 102–5, 112, 225
attention, 189–90
in acknowledgment, 126
to details, 195–99
existence and, 122–23
morality of, 125
speed and, 183
Weil and, 119–42
authenticity, 53, 257–58
autonomy, 229–32
Baars, Jan, 247
Barber, Samuel, 91
Barkhordian, Elias, 18, 27, 104
b’ezrat hashem (with God’s help), 236
beauty, 62, 183, 287
in Beauvoir’s eyes, 244
creation of, 74
death as, 278
as ephemeral, 190
Gandhi on, 147
Heian cult of, 192–93, 197
of imperfection, 72–73
morality of, 70, 193
in nature, 72–73, 237–38
opinion and, 188
sadness and, 91
seeing vs. understanding of, 66–67
suffering and, 272
unexpected, 186
Beauvoir, Simone de, xvii, 5, 125, 177, 243–67, 272, 279, 281
Beck, Harry, 133
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 90
Berlin Wisdom Project, 224
Bhagavad Gita, 57, 92, 135, 154–55
Bienne, Lake, 49
Big Idea, 131, 195, 252
Birla House, 148, 151, 162
Birth of Tragedy, The (Nietzsche), 210
Blake, William, 74
Book of Rites, The, 173
Borges, Jorge Luis, 94
Bracciolini, Poggio, 111
Bradley, Francis, 123
brahmodya, 33
Brahms, Johannes, 88, 90
British Empire, 152, 154, 158–59
Broadbent, Donald, 123–24
Buddha, 83, 93, 112, 148
Buddhism, 18, 90, 92–93, 112, 190
Café de Flore, 256–57
Cain, William, 301
calligraphy, 192–93
Camus, Albert, 6, 10, 128, 265–66
caste system, 149–50
Castor (the Beaver), 252–53, 256
catastrophe, 225, 235
Categorical Imperative, 249, 251
Catholics, 272
cell phones, dependence on, 65–66
certainty, 218–19
Chabris, Christopher, 295
Chaerephon, 19
change, 224, 229–30
Chenoweth, Erica, 160
childhood mortality, 272
China, xvii, 125, 171–72
Chinese farmer, parable of, 91–92
Chinese philosophy, 57–58, 93
Chinese restaurants, rituals of, 176
choice, 194, 231, 251, 264, 267, 287
conscious, 257
in existentialism, 250
fear in, 114
inevitability of, 258
old age and, 254
paths not taken in, 260
perception as, 285
Christianity, 18, 154
Epicureanism eschewed by, 111
theology of, 214
Christian mysticism, 90
chronos (chronological time), 247
Churchill, Winston, 124, 160
Cicero, 20, 230, 246, 253, 254
civil disobedience, 157
civil rights movement, 159–60
clean thought, 162
Clinton, Bill, 224
Cogito ergo sum, 61
cognitive behavioral therapy, 300
Cohen, Leonard, 91
coincidences, 259
collateral beauty, 287
Colter, Rob, 223, 226, 227–28, 231, 236, 237, 238
daughter of, 240–41
Coming of Age, The (Beauvoir), 253–54, 258
compassion, 80, 180
compromise, 163–64
concentration, attention vs., 128–29
Concord, Mass., 56–58, 63–64, 73–75
Confessions, The (Rousseau), 41
confrontations, 152–53, 158–59, 162
Confucius, Confucianism, 297
death of, 172
five cardinal virtues of, 173, 176
kindness and, 169–81
ritual in, 173–76
statue of, 170–71
Constructive Disengagement, 266
consumer culture, 109–10
control, 229, 241, 256, 286
choice and, 232–33
of one’s destiny, 227
in Stoicism, 236–37
conversation, 80, 281, 287
internal, 63
paying attention in, 130–31
philosophic value of, 21
seeing as, 61
for Socrates, 29–31
Copernican Moment, 261
coping, Stoics on, 221–42
corporal punishment, 58
cowardice, 152, 162
Cramer, Jeff, 73–74
Crates, 225
Crazy Wisdom, 18, 102, 290
Crystal Palace Exhibition, 126–27
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 122
cultural influence, 44
curiosity, 23, 262
Cynics, Cynicism, 10, 17, 223, 225
daemon (voice), 17
Damrosch, Leo, 41, 52
dancers, dance, 212–13, 220
Darkness Visible (Styron), 88
death, dying, 114
of author’s father-in-law, 279
avoidance of topic, 270–71, 275
in cycle of life, 277
early, 27–28