Bertrand Russell Wisdom of the West(西方的智慧)
定 价：88 元
- 作者：[英] 罗素 著
- 出版时间：2013/2/26
- ISBN：9787511701251
- 出 版 社：中央编译出版社
- 中图法分类：B5
- 页码：583
- 纸张：胶版纸
- 版次：1
- 开本：16K
《西方的智慧（英文版）（套装共2册）》是一本以通俗、浅近的现代语体写成的西方文明史，诚如《西方的智慧（英文版）（套装共2册）》的副标题所揭示的，是在自希腊城邦政体以迄于今的政治、历史这个大背景下探讨整个西方文明演进的脉络，旁及科学、宗教、经济乃至社会习俗，无所不包、无所不备。此悸完成后，罗素又在友人的帮助下，在文中插入数百幅精美的插图，其中有许多具有很高的文献价值，因而，读者完全可以将其视为西方文明的一幅全景图。
写作《西方的智慧》时，罗素已年逾八旬，可以说，这是一个智慧老人一生研读西方文明的结晶，因而，有人恰当地将此书视为学习西方文化的入门书。
著名作家王小波生前曾对插图本的英文版《西方的智慧》叹赏不置。
Bertrand Russell（1872-1970），was a British philosopher，logician，mathematician，historian，religious skeptic，social reformer，socialist and pacifist.Althoughhe spent the majority of his life in England，hewas born in Wales，where he also died.Russell led the British"revolt againstidealism"in the early 1900s and is consideredone of the founders of analytic philosophyalong with his protege Wittgenstein and hiselder Frege.He was a prominent anti-waractivist，championing free trade between nationsand anti-imperialism.Russell was imprisonedfor his pacifist activism during World War I，campaigned against Adolf Hitler，for nucleardisarmament，criticised Soviet totalitarianismand the United States of America's involvementin the Vietnam War.In 1950，Russell wasawarded the Nobel Prize in Literature，"inrecognition of his varied and significantwritings in which he champions humanitarianideals and freedom of thought."
《西方的智慧（英文版） Ⅰ》
FOREWORD
PROLOGUE
BEFORE SOCRATES
ATHENS
HELLENISM
EARLY CHRISTIANITY
SCHOLASTICISM
RISE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY
BRITISH EMPIRICISM
ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM
UTILITARIANISM AND SINCE
CONTEMPORARY
EPILOGUE
《西方的智慧（英文版） Ⅱ》
Greece proper is rugged in aspect as well as in climate. The countryis divided by barren mountain ranges. Passage by land from valley tovalley is difficult. Separate communities grew up in the fertile plains，and when the land no longer could carry their numbers， some would setout across the sea to found colonies. From the middle of the eighth tothe middle of the sixth century B.C. the shores of Sicilv Southern Italy，and the Black Sea became dotted with Greek cities. With the rise ofcolonies trade developed， and the Greeks came into renewed contactwith the East.
Politicall-D post-Dorian Greece underwent a regular sequence ofchanges beginning with kingship. Gradually power came into the handsof the aristocracy， which in turn was followed by a period ofnon-hereditary monarchs or tyrants. In the end， political power fell tothe citizens， which is the literal meaning of 'democracy'. Tyranny anddemocracy henceforth alternate. Pure democracy may work so long asall the citizens can be gathered into the market place. In our time itsurvives only in a few of the smaller cantons of Switzerland. The earliest and greatest literary monument of the .Greek world isthe work of Homer. About the man we know nothing definite. Someeven think there was a line of poets later called by this name. At allevents， the two great Homeric poems， the Iliad and the Odyssev seemto have been completed by about 8oo B.C. The Trojan War， aroundwhich the poems turn， took place shortly after Jzoo B.C. We thus havea post-Dorian account ofa pre-Dorian event， and hence a certain amountof inconsistencv， In their present form， the poems go back to therecession of Peisistratus， the Athenian tyrant of the sixth century B.C.Much of the brutality of the earlier period has been softened in Homer，though traces of it survive. The poems indeed reflect the rationalattitudes of an emancipated ruling class. Bodies are cremated， not buriedas we know they were in Mycenaean times.
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