Lars Fr. H. Svendsen
Autor(a) de A Philosophy of Boredom
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Det sanne, det gode og det skjønne : en innføring i filosofi / Lars Fr.H. Svendsen og Simo Säätelä. – 2. utg.,… (2004) 5 exemplares
Filosofia della menzogna 2 exemplares
Rädslans filosofi 1 exemplar
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- 3.8
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- 4
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- 76
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First I must admit that this was an assigned reading for a Philosophy class I am taking. Since my professor is incomprehensible, I only know what the book has taught me. So this book has taught me everything I know about differentiating between humans and animals. Considering the nature of my reading it was surprising that I did read the book in a single eight hour reading session. Svendson's writing is very plane. He does not assume you know the current discourse and thus his ideas are palatable. Further when he does use more complex elements within his tradition, he always explains them. However, do not assume that his simple writing makes the concepts boring.
Svendson has a lot to say on the topic of humanity versus animals (obviously since he wrote a book) and the simple language did not impede his ability to express complex ideas. He makes a number of notions that are filled with content that can and should be deliberated on by you and a few friends. There are just so many ways to apply some of his definitions for humanity that it makes sense to explore as many as you can. The problem leads to questioning how Svendson ultimately wants us to use his ideas.
I gave 4/5 because I could not quite understand what I was supposed to understand by the book. When I read a book on something I want to know what the author's conclusion is to the original question. This is a personal taste, but important to me. I believe Svendson starts off with what he believes to be true and then everything else is a justification of it. This isn't a terrible writing style, but there never seemed to be a follow up since the book ended making the claim this should be considered in the tradition that Svendson studies. As an outsider to the tradition the whole last few chapters were seemingly pointless to me. Still it had good ideas, but the thesis was not relevant to how I was using it.
Over all I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to someone with a passing interest inPhilosophy of Human Nature. Can't quite say taking a class on it was worth it, but the book definitely is worth it. (If you're curious, we only had to read this book and Frankenstein if you wanted to know what a 300 level philosophy course explores.)… (mais)