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,...
Siri, 22–23
Sisyphus, 218, 265, 267
skepticism, 206
Skeptics, 273–74
sleep, 3–4, 9
smartphones, xiii, 285–87
smell, sense of, 189
Social Contract, The (Rousseau), 43
social habit, 53
social inequality, 149–50, 192
social media, 95–96
Socrates, xvi, xvii, xviii, 10, 15–37, 50, 63, 66, 78, 80, 102, 132, 170, 172, 211, 212, 225, 229, 247, 248, 252, 286
Confucius compared to, 172
death of, 36–37, 63, 274
idiosyncracies of, 17–18, 30–31
methods of, 21, 24, 33
philosophy influenced by, 17–18, 19–20
Thoreau and, 63
trial of, 17, 36
as walker, 46
on wondering, 15–37
Socratic pause (Mighty Pause), 231, 232, 286
Socratic thinking, 20–21
solipsism, 81
Solnit, Rebecca, 47, 51
Solomon, Robert, 21, 35, 212, 214–15
Sontag, Susan, 184
sophists, 21
Southern Medical Journal, 95
spanking, 42
speed, 129, 133–34
attention and, 183
connectivity and, 286
kindness and, 179–80
relativity of, 39
Spielberg, Steven, 141
Spinoza, Baruch, 91, 113
Spock, Benjamin, 263
starvation, 135–36
static pleasure, 109
Stephan, Maria, 160
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 40
stoa poikile (painted porch), 225
Stockdale, James, 228
Stoic Camp, 221–24, 225, 227, 230, 232, 234, 235–37, 240, 241
Stoicism, Stoics, 10, 12, 104, 111, 144, 221–42, 256, 286
reserve clause in, 236
Story of Philosophy, The (Durant), xiv
storytelling, oral, 88–89
stress, physiological response to, 95
studying, purpose of, 177
Styron, William, 88
subjectivity, in seeing, 62
success, attempts to define, 32–34
suffering, 83
altruistic response to, 226–27
attention to, 125–26
beauty and, 272
discomfort with, 180–81
value of, 204, 217–18
suicide, 88, 136, 301
Camus on, 6, 10
summer solstice, 64–69
superficiality, 71–72
Symposium (Plato), 24
syphilis, 218
tactile sense, 191
Taj Mahal, 272
Take Your Child to Work Day, 26–27
Tastee diner, 26–27
technology:
death and, 279
philosophy dismissed by, xv–xvi
Teenager Test, 216
Teishi, Empress, 191, 197
tetrapharmakos (Four-Part Cure), 106, 112
Thales, 19–20
“That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die” (Montaigne), 276
Themista, 104–5
Theory of Forms, 251
Theosophists, 154
therapeutic philosophy, 106
therapists, 24
therapy, music as, 88
theriac, 9
thinking:
as celebration of life, 213
reading vs., 96
walking and, 46
Thoreau, Henry David, 78, 92–93, 103, 113, 147, 157, 189–90, 213, 223, 262, 274, 285, 286, 287, 292
author’s attempted emulation of, 64–69
birth of, 57
death of, 301
journals of, 60, 62–63
misanthropic bent of, 56–57, 59
persistence of, 301
philosophical influence on, 57–58
physical prowess of, 63
on seeing, 58–75
visual acumen of, 60–61, 65
as walker, 46
Thought Leaders, 131
thought, train of, 15–16
Tibetan Buddhism, 18
time, 247–48
attention and, 136
Tokyo, population density of, 185–86
tolerance, 130
Tolstoy, Leo, 33–34, 94, 157, 258
Top Ten Ways to Grow Old, 258
torpedo fish (electric ray), 29, 33
torture, 228, 229
tourists, 68
train geeks, 199
train travel, xiv–xvi, xvii, xviii, 3–4, 9, 12, 29, 34, 47–48, 77–78, 119–20, 132–34, 136, 141, 143–45, 152, 156, 167–68, 169–70, 173, 175–76, 179, 183–85, 203–4, 211, 221–22, 243–44, 269, 285
dining in, 101–2
evolution of, 39–40
Gandhi’s ambivalence about, 146
happiness and, 199
illusion in, 77–78
list-making in, 197–98
reading and, 295
speed in, 183–84
thought process compared to, 15–16
waiting in, 119–20, 221–22
tranquility, 112
Transcendentalism, 57, 61
transportation, evolution of, 40–41
trust in oneself, 282
truth, 274–75
tuberculosis, 135
Übermensch (overman), 209
uncertainty, 218–19, 224
unfinished business, 266–67
unrealizables, 245
unselfing, 132
Upanishads, 92, 93
urban nomads, 40
urgency, xviii–xix
Valéry, Paul, 266
Vedas, 64, 70, 214
vegetarianism, 157
Verdi, Giuseppe, 262
Vietnam War, 228, 263
View from Above, 238–39, 241
violence:
in Bhagavad Gita, 154–55
escalation of, 159
Gandhi on, 144, 147, 154, 162
iconic sites of, 148
unclean, 163
vision:
physiology of, 72
Thoreau’s acuteness of, 60–61, 69–70
Voltaire, 22, 103
Voluntary Deprivation, 233, 234, 235
wabi (imperfect), 191
Wagner, Richard, 90, 94, 211
waiting, 119–20, 142, 221
Walden, 92
finding one’s own, 73–75
Walden (Thoreau), 56, 59, 60, 62, 63, 68, 72–73, 74
Walden Pond, 58, 69, 74
author’s trek to, 65–69, 70–72
Thoreau’s cabin at, 68, 70–71, 73, 292
Walden Woods, 113
Walden Woods Project, 73
walking, 39–54, 134, 192, 207, 219
for Gandhi, 158
in human evolution, 48–49
for Nietzsche, 209
physiology of, 49
in primates, 291
for Rousseau, 39–54, 78
uses of, 51
“Walking” (Thoreau), 58–59, 74
Warburton, Nigel, 81
war protests, 263
Washington, George, 224
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A (Thoreau), 60
Weil, André, 124
Weil, Simone, 119–42, 193, 221, 252
appearance and personal style of, 121, 137–38
death and burial site of, 132, 136–38
early years of, 124–25
health issues of, 124, 130, 135, 138
Weiner, Sonya, xviii, 11, 25–27, 29, 42, 88, 139, 141, 215, 216, 235, 239, 240, 257, 269, 272, 282
author’s advice to, 267
author’s Paris trip with, 247–52, 254–56, 275, 283
Weiss, John, 65
wildness, 58
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Internet as digital manifestation of, 97
Schopenhauer on, 82–84, 286
Williams, Robin, 183
will-to-power, 209, 213
Wilson, Leslie, 58–60, 62, 65, 70
wine, 113–15
wisdom:
of Eastern philosophy, 92–93
five criteria for, 224
hunger for, xiii–xiv, 57, 214, 241
knowledge and, 19, 96
of Montaigne, 273
need for, xviii
as portable, 34
transcendence of, xvii
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 24, 127
Woman Destroyed, The (Beauvoir), 262
wonder, wondering, 15–37, 63, 262, 286
wood, 190–91, 194
Wordsworth, William, 51
work, for Beauvoir, 253, 266
World as Will and Representation, The (Schopenhauer), 81, 210
World War I, 124
World War II, 132, 160
worst-case scenarios, 234–35
written word, limitations of, 28–29
wu wei (non-doing), 174
Yoga Express, 143–45, 155, 156, 167
youth, 243, 262
Zarathustra, 207, 209, 211, 212
Zeno, 225, 237
zero, concept of, 296
zoology, Schopenhauer’s interest in, 80, 83, 86, 95
zuihitsu (following the brush), 187, 274
Zweig, Stefan, 210
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