Many people hear this sentence, just like waking up from a big dream. Yes, I have experienced it many times. Looking back, I found myself in a daze, as if I had been carried away by something, and it had been several years!
Socrates reminds us to think about every state of ourselves and look at our life from a philosophical perspective.
In my impression, the subject of "philosophy" is very boring. Philosophy books can't be touched at all Who will watch the crazy talk of a group of "crazy people" when they have nothing to do? Doesn't that make you "crazy"? But recently I really read a book about "philosophy" and found many "lunatics". In fact, their brains are very big and interesting!
This book is called "oranges are not oranges", which makes me feel ridiculous. How can an orange not be an orange? The brain hole is big enough. After reading this book, I found obvious phenomena in life that philosophers can also study.
The author of this book is Gary Haydn, a philosopher and journalist who has been writing a column for the British Times for a long time.
His book "Oranges Are Not Oranges" consists of 43 chapters, which tells the interesting philosophical thinking of philosophers from the aspects of logic, politics, ethics and psychology. Of course, as a master of philosophy, Gary Haydn also expounded his thoughts in the book.
For example, we all know that in our understanding of the world, there is a theory of material composition and idealism. In this book, the author also introduced the concept of "World 3" to us. Philosophers believe that the world can be divided into worlds 1, 2, 3. World 1 is matter, world 2 is mind, and world 3 is the product of our mind, such as music works, paintings and so on.
According to the theoretical proposer's model, this is indeed the truth. My brain did some broadcasting exercises with this article. This brain hole is more open!
Back to the topic "Oranges are not Oranges", this is an article about the primary and secondary properties of objects in this book. Color is the second attribute of the object, not the attribute of the object itself, but the attribute of the interaction between the object and the receiver, so it can only be said that "the orange looks orange".
Seeing this is really brain-burning. How about oranges? What if it is orange? What if it's not? As a fruit, it can be eaten, and it must be defined as the first attribute and the second attribute. Can you talk about people?
But when I picked up an orange to eat, I immediately thought of what a philosopher said: "An orange is not an orange". The orange I saw is the result of the interaction between orange and me, and what I want to taste is its second attribute. Haha, crying, eating an orange and thinking about philosophy is also crazy!
Having said that, the book "oranges are not oranges" is not good. Are there any benefits?
As mentioned above, eat an orange and think about the philosopher's thinking and the attributes of the orange. Is this what Socrates said about examining life?
In my philosophy, yes!
Although philosophy is profound, which thoughts and theories do not come from small phenomena in life? Philosophers think deeply and demonstrate repeatedly to prove the correctness of their theories. Their argumentation process is full of speculation, burning brain cells, opening a strange door for us and bringing different things to the brain that often thinks about eating, drinking and sleeping. This is also the benefit of reading philosophy books!
Reading philosophy books is not just reading. The most important thing is to think about whether the philosopher's thought is correct, whether his thought is groundbreaking, what is the practical significance of this thought, and within what scope it can maintain its correctness. These are the contents of thinking.
Maybe, you think it's useless to think about it, but will it be far from us to walk with philosophers and learn to look at life from a philosophical perspective with the ups and downs of their thoughts?
"An unexamined life is not worth living", and a book without thinking is not worth reading. Gary Haydn's Oranges Are Not Oranges is a book that forces you to think.
Although the title of this book is extremely contradictory and attractive, it looks like a tongue twister. Be careful, into the pit. Those who are not afraid of opening their brains can burn their brains with Gary Haydn's tongue twisters.