AC Grayling
上一期周刊的声音里，有一条是
每一个哲学教授都需要一个9岁的女儿。我的女儿总习惯问我，“爸爸，那真是个愚蠢的想法。”而她总是对的。
——英国哲学家格雷林出了新书《恐怖时代的自由》
http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/62287/49073/dz
刚才搜了一下，更有意思的是另外两句：
我是素食主义者，但我穿皮鞋。有些人说这自相矛盾; 我回答说我尽力了。
我最近重走了著名的威廉·哈兹里特（William Hazlitt）什罗浦郡至萨默塞特郡之旅，徒步访问了 （Wordsworth）及 Coleridge）的故居。我花了两个星期走过这荆棘之路，最后我意识到哈兹里特那家伙是坐着马车完成这旅程的。
搜索的时候，看到卫报5月的一个专题The book that changed my life
Lolita, the Bible or Dr No? We asked writers
to reveal their literary inspirations ...
AC Grayling
I'll reluctantly limit myself to three: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason in philosophical respects, Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in political respects, and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for what literature can mean and do. I first read the latter two when young and although I did not then, and do not now, agree or sympathise with everything in them, they stimulated ideas that have remained permanently significant to me. Kant came later, and although I do not accept most of his arguments, they likewise contributed greatly to the study of some of philosophy's deepest problems. None of them would mean what they do without their connection to dozens of other books that matter to me also.
Alain de Botton
Norman Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon opened up a whole new way of writing for me. It's a piece of reportage about the 1969 Nasa moon landings, in which Mailer adopts a freewheeling tone that enables him to discuss himself, his recent divorce, fascism in America, race and technology - all with huge intelligence, humour and a crazed energy. The book showed that the barrier between being a novelist and a reporter are in the end rather flexible and that you can take the stuff of ordinary newspaper stories and turn them into something resembling art and philosophy. I couldn't have written my most recent book without this great book as inspiration.
前阵子FT评的几本书：
Gray’s Anatomy: Selected Writings
By John Gray
Allen Lane £20, 481 pages
FT Bookshop price: £16
Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century
By AC Grayling
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9868322a-515d-11de-84c3-00144feabdc0.html
每一个哲学教授都需要一个9岁的女儿。我的女儿总习惯问我，“爸爸，那真是个愚蠢的想法。”而她总是对的。
——英国哲学家格雷林出了新书《恐怖时代的自由》
http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/62287/49073/dz
刚才搜了一下，更有意思的是另外两句：
我是素食主义者，但我穿皮鞋。有些人说这自相矛盾; 我回答说我尽力了。
我最近重走了著名的威廉·哈兹里特（William Hazlitt）什罗浦郡至萨默塞特郡之旅，徒步访问了 （Wordsworth）及 Coleridge）的故居。我花了两个星期走过这荆棘之路，最后我意识到哈兹里特那家伙是坐着马车完成这旅程的。
搜索的时候，看到卫报5月的一个专题The book that changed my life
Lolita, the Bible or Dr No? We asked writers
to reveal their literary inspirations ...
AC Grayling
I'll reluctantly limit myself to three: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason in philosophical respects, Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in political respects, and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for what literature can mean and do. I first read the latter two when young and although I did not then, and do not now, agree or sympathise with everything in them, they stimulated ideas that have remained permanently significant to me. Kant came later, and although I do not accept most of his arguments, they likewise contributed greatly to the study of some of philosophy's deepest problems. None of them would mean what they do without their connection to dozens of other books that matter to me also.
Alain de Botton
Norman Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon opened up a whole new way of writing for me. It's a piece of reportage about the 1969 Nasa moon landings, in which Mailer adopts a freewheeling tone that enables him to discuss himself, his recent divorce, fascism in America, race and technology - all with huge intelligence, humour and a crazed energy. The book showed that the barrier between being a novelist and a reporter are in the end rather flexible and that you can take the stuff of ordinary newspaper stories and turn them into something resembling art and philosophy. I couldn't have written my most recent book without this great book as inspiration.
前阵子FT评的几本书：
Gray’s Anatomy: Selected Writings
By John Gray
Allen Lane £20, 481 pages
FT Bookshop price: £16
Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century
By AC Grayling
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9868322a-515d-11de-84c3-00144feabdc0.html
