Lonely Reading: How Philosophers Read

Douban score: 8.3

Publishing House: Taihai Publishing House

Douban scored 8.3, but I don't know why only 122 people commented on this book in Douban, and this 122 is me.

Get to know Schopenhauer, the author of this book. Schopenhauer was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe in the first half of the19th century. Father Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer was a very successful businessman, and mother johanna schopenhauer was a famous writer at that time, who had contacts with Goethe and other writers. This background, coupled with rich inheritance, made Schopenhauer devote himself to knowledge learning and master seven or eight foreign languages.

If you don't know Schopenhauer, you must have heard of Hegel. He is a colleague of Hegel. He teaches at the University of Berlin and was interviewed by Hegel when he entered the university to teach. Interestingly, Schopenhauer opposed Hegel's speculative philosophy.

Nietzsche, a famous philosopher who initiated modern western philosophy, was a student of Schopenhauer. When Nietzsche bought Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, he seemed to be inspired by some kind of soul. It took him 65,438+04 days to finish reading this masterpiece. In his own words, he "succumbed to his powerful and noble genius magic."

He believes that no matter how profound the knowledge in your chest is, if you can't think and digest it repeatedly, its value is far less than those who don't know much but can figure it out. Lonely reading is the crystallization of Schopenhauer's reading wisdom. This book *** 155 page consists of four chapters: the person who steals your time, loves her purity, and symbolically, literature is a mirror if thinking disappears from this world. The first three chapters mainly talk about the relationship between reading and thinking, and the last chapter is about poetry.

Truth is completely naked, and the simpler the expression, the deeper the influence of truth will be.

People born of women have short days and many troubles. Come out like a flower and be cut off. Fly away like a shadow, can't stay. -Work

I spent two days reading it as a whole, and according to my reading notes and related materials, I will share it with you from the following four points. I hope my book review can let my friends read this book, and I will try my best to improve my writing level and share more dry goods. Because good books need us to dig together and reproduce vitality.

The author symbolically divides writers into three types: meteor, planet and star, and thinks that the works of writers like star should be widely read, because such writers can easily express all their thoughts in concise and unambiguous words. Similarly, it can inspire us to explore the clearest, most powerful and most striking way to express our thoughts.

Then how can we know which works are thoughtful? Those famous books through the ages are worth reading. Other books can be confirmed from Douban and Zhihu. If you buy a book, you should also pay attention to the publishing house. The content, typesetting and translation are superior.

Life is too short. Don't read the works of the other two writers too much, but learn to plan your time reasonably.

Schopenhauer opposes dead reading and dead reading. He believes that reading must be thoughtful. Don't think, just read blindly, just like people who often ride horses and cars, their walking ability will be weakened, and eventually they will lose their ability to think independently.

"If we want to digest and absorb what we have learned, turn it into our own use and make full use of it, we must combine our knowledge with all kinds of knowledge through the process of thinking, or compare your truth with other truths. Of course, the scope we can "think carefully" is very narrow, limited to what we are familiar with, so we must constantly strive to make progress. "

I agree with this passage, because when we read, we are controlled by the author's thoughts, and when we think, we extend our personal spiritual activities according to the nature and mood of the parties at that time. In fact, we can ask ourselves, after reading for so many years, what did we leave behind? Maybe some people, like me, only remember the title of the book, and the content and plot in the book have long been forgotten.

But if you really want to absorb the essence of the book, you will definitely start with asking questions. With a goal, concentrate on finding the answer and take notes carefully. What you have read and thought about will leave a neuron mark in your mind. Lonely Reading is my second intensive reading. I watched it back and forth four times. With the deepening of thinking, I think it is not surprising that Schopenhauer can achieve such great academic achievements. From the book, I can read how a real Schopenhauer reads.

"In literature, there are countless bad books that thrive like weeds, hurting grains and making them die." Obviously, bad books are very harmful, and I think so. Do you like reading WeChat official account articles and chicken soup romance novels? But is it really useful for you to recall these contents? Let our emotions react in the same way, without thinking or opinions. Over time, we will slowly lose ourselves and drift with the flow. This is terrible, not only does it not help to improve the status quo, but also wastes time.

In addition, the author also reminds us to pay attention to those bestsellers, because some bestsellers are not very readable. "Because most people usually only read the newly published books, they have no time to read the wise works of the sages, and even the authors only stay in the small scope of popular concepts, and our times are getting deeper and deeper in the mud set by ourselves."

Why do you want to read more ancient books? It is already difficult to understand from the language. Let's take a look at Schopenhauer's way of ancient books.

"Nothing can give us spiritual happiness more than reading the classics of the ancients. When we pick up an ancient book, even if we read it for half an hour, we will feel extremely relaxed, happy, clean and detached, as if we were drinking a cool spring. One of the reasons is that the ancient language is beautiful, and the other reason is that the author's thoughts are great and far-sighted. Although his works have gone through thousands of years, their value is still intact. "

Just like many modern people, they read the Analects of Confucius, Tao Te Ching, Mencius and other ancient works, absorb the thoughts of wise men and apply them to their present lives. For example, before Yu Dan talked about The Analects of Confucius, it was very popular for a while, and ancient books are still in use today. This way of reading ancient books will enable us to enjoy advanced spiritual culture, but we don't have to rely on others for fun. This book has its own endless fun.

1000 people have 1000 Hamlet in their eyes, and each of us has his own opinion. Welcome to explore the mysteries of the book. I hope everyone who likes reading can really think independently.