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,...
optimism, 9
oracles, 19
otaku (geek), 198–99
overexamined life, 36
overthinking, 51
ownership, 239
pain, 278
balancing pleasure and, 114–16
empathy for, 124–25
endurance of, 228–29
Stoic acceptance of, 232
pain relief, 107–8
pallium, 8
panic attacks, 9, 86
paper, 190–91
beauty and quality of, 193, 197, 198
Paradise Lost (Milton), 272
paranoia, 52
Paris, author’s father-daughter trip to, 247–52, 254–56, 283
Parkinson’s disease, xv, 280
Parmenides, 19
Pascal, Blaise, 121
passion, 263
passionate heroism, 266
passive resistance, 152, 157
passivity, 129
past, embracing and owning of, 258–60
pathe (emotion), 226
patience, 120, 129–30, 142
Paul VI, Pope, 128
pausing, value of, 24
peace of mind, 107
peace, sense of, 66
Pensées (Pascal), 121
perception:
as choice, 285
reality as, 81–82
senses in, 189–90
as subjective, 234
persistence, 30, 156, 206, 209, 213
perspectivism, 187–88
pessimism, 9, 217, 226
of Schopenhauer, 78–84, 87, 91, 93–94, 96
Pétrement, Simone, 129, 135
Phaedo (Plato), 36
philosopher-king, 8, 184
philosophers:
author’s choice of, xvii–xix
brotherhood of, 5
defined, xiv
early, 19–20
imperfections of, xviii
imprisonment of, 45
old age of, 246
as outliers, 17–18
overreaching by, 252
as practical, xviii
walking pursued by, 46
philosophy, 210, 251
academic perspective of, xvi–xvii
ambivalence and, 7
as corporeal pursuit, 46–47
“doing” of, 251
historical perspective of, xvi
practical results of, 35–36
problematic nature of, 36
schools of, 106
slow pace of, 24
stereotypes of, 225–26
themes of, 194, 205
train travel and, xiv–xvi
uses of, xvi, 57, 78, 219
in various life stages, 223–24
Philosophy Now, xv, 5
Pillow Book, The (Shōnagon), 185–91, 195
plague, 272
Plato, 10, 20, 36, 77–78, 82, 135, 170, 184, 223, 243, 246, 251
Academy of, 104, 114
pleasure, 286, 300
freegoing, 233
“good enough” in, 115–17
primacy of, 107
pursuit of, 101–57
taxonomy of, 188–89
willingness to relive, 215, 216
pleasure decoys, 109–10
Pleasure Paradox (Paradox of Hedonism), 36
poetry:
of habit, 263–64
Heian rituals of, 192–93
philosophy as, xvii
politeness, kindness vs., 169–70
Pompeii, 35
“Pond Scum” (Schulz), 56–57, 59
porcupines, 86, 164, 285
Porcupine’s Dilemma, 86
pornography, 87
positive affect, 107
possibility, 283
Potidaea, battle of, 24, 30
pre-emotions (proto-passions), 231, 287
premeditatio malorum (premeditated adversity), 234–35, 241, 286
Principal Doctrines (Epicurus), 105–6
procedural knowledge, 224
progress:
change vs., 96
illusion of, 265
projects, 248, 250, 256, 267
existential, 250
passion for, 263
Protestants, 272, 301
prudence, 114
Pullman, George, 101
Pyrrho, 112
Pythagoras, 19, 213–14
questions, questioning, 15–37, 63, 78, 212, 267, 283
Quiet Car, 55–56, 75, 77
Rabin, Yitzhak, 301
racial discrimination, 146–47
Railway Station, The (Frith), 127–28
Rajdhani Express, 156, 167
Rationalists, 61
Reagan, Ronald, 5, 262
reality:
flow in perception of, 122–23
as mental construct, 81–82
misperception of, 77–78
for Thoreau, 63
reclusiveness, 105
recollection, 259–60
“Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God” (Weil), 128
regrets, 203–20, 259, 264
reincarnation, 208
rejuvenation, 262
relabeling, 231, 242
relationships, 86
relativism of values, 224
Rembrandt, 262
ren (human-heartedness), 173–75, 176
rescue archaeology, 34–35
reserve clauses, 241–42
resignation, acceptance vs., 256
results, process vs., 155
retention, 259
retirement, 257–58
Revaluation of All Values, The (Nietzsche), 218
Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Rousseau), 47–48, 50
Revolutionary War, 57, 292
revolutions, violent vs. nonviolent, 158
Richardson, Hadley, 141
Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner), 211
Riseling, Maurice, ix, xix
ritual, 173–76, 181
Rob (psychologist), 110–11
Roeper, Stephen, 84–86, 96
Romanticism, 43
room tone, 66
Roosevelt, Franklin, 224
Rossini, Gioachino, 87, 97
Rousseau, Isaac, 41
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, xviii, 78, 85, 104, 124, 158, 177, 192, 203, 209, 211, 212, 285
as antisocial, 41–44, 47, 50
death of, 52
moment of revelation for, 45
as outlier, 43, 47, 254
walking for, 39–54, 65
Rousseau museum, 43
routine, 205
Roy, Mr., 156
Ruskin, John, 39–40
Russell, Bertrand, 263, 266
saccades, 72
sadness, 90–91, 198
Sagan, Carl, 20
Saint-Pierre, 47, 49–50, 53
sakura (cherry blossoms), 190
Salomé, Lou, 206
Salt March, 143, 158
sannyasi (Hindu ascetic), 58
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 46, 245, 249, 250
Beauvoir and, 253, 256–57, 260–61, 264, 301
death of, 261
on other people, 11
satyagraha, 157, 297
see also nonviolent resistance
sauntering, 65, 72
savage man, 44
savlanut (patience), 130, 185
savoring, 67
scanning, 72, 75
Schopenhauer Archives, 78, 84–85, 91, 96
Schopenhauer, Arthur, xviii, 104, 147, 164, 210, 211, 217, 226, 285
belated recognition for, 84–85, 91, 293
collected essays of, 78–79
on death, 271
early years of, 79, 85–86
Eastern influence on, 92–93
hearing loss of, 294
influence of, 94
on listening, 77–97
music loved by, 86–91, 94
personal peculiarities of, 86
as philosopher of pessimism, 78–84, 87, 91, 93–94, 96
on philosophical writing, 294
Schopenhauer, Johanna, 85
Schulz, Kathryn, 56
Schuman, Michael, 171–72
science, philosophy vs., xvi–xvii
Scruton, Roger, 62
seeing, 55, 78
as deliberate act, 69–70, 74–75
process of, 61–62
slowly, 67
Thoreau on, 58–75
self-acceptance, 279–80
self-compassion, 12
self-help books, 10
self-inspection, 63
self-interrogation, 33
selfishness, 12, 132
self-knowledge, 21
self-loathing, 12, 163
self-pity, 52
self-reliance, 238
self, search for, 73–74
Seneca, 120, 225, 233, 234, 240, 241
senescence, 254
senses, 269
in perception, 105, 189–90
pleasure of, 107
Thoreau’s acuteness of, 60–61, 69
serendipities, 259
setbacks, 285–87
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence), 141
Sextus Empiricus, 283
sexual pleasure, 107
Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor, 272
Shakespeare, William, 250–51, 300
Shaw, Charles, 115
shinkansen (bullet train), 183–84, 197–98
Shōnagon, Sei, xviii, 183–99, 205, 222, 274, 286, 287
Silvaplana, Lake, 207, 209
Simons, Daniel, 295
simplicity, 71, 205