Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment is a 2017 book by journalist and evolutionary psychologist Robert Wright. As of August 2017, the book had peaked at The New York Times No. 4 bestseller in hardcover nonfiction.
In Why Buddhism is True, Wright advocates a secular, Westernized form of Buddhism focusing on the practice of mindfulness meditation and stripped of supernatural beliefs such as reincarnation. He further argues that more widespread practice of meditation could lead to a more reflective and empathetic population and reduce political tribalism. In line with his background, Wright draws heavily on evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology to defend the correctness of Buddhism's diagnosis of the causes of human suffering. He argues the modern psychological idea of the modularity of mind resonates with the Buddhist teaching of no-self (anatman).

Contents include a selected bibliography and an editor's Introduction broken into two sections. The first section provides a brief sketch of the historical, social, and biographical context in which Mill wrote and the second traces the central line of argument in the text to aid in the comprehension of the essay's structure, method, and major theses.

《心之道》是一本关于东方哲学的著作，也是一剂关于现代人焦虑问题的良药。阿伦·瓦兹针对现代人面对的危机，即一个人如何生活在一个他永远不能从中获得安全感的世界，从东方禅学思想的角度提供了一个可能的解答。他指出这个问题本身包含着它的解答——人们恰恰应该接受生活中充满痛苦与不安全 感的事实，而不应该拒绝和逃避它们。为了有一个充实的人生，人们应该拥抱现在，活在当下。
“任何需要修正生活进程的人都可以从这本书里获益。”
——狄巴克•乔布拉（迈克尔•杰克逊人生导师/克林顿最赞赏的身心灵大师）
阿伦•瓦兹是“迷幻一代”最值得尊敬、最深思熟虑的大师。
——美国《时代》周刊
阅读阿伦•瓦兹对我们是一种挑战，它让我们探索一种思考的全新道路，启发我们去过一种更加充实满足的生活。瓦兹的遗产存在于《心之道》之中。这本书充分展示了他锐利的智慧、敏捷的机智、迷人的优雅。对那些于我们所有人来说都至关重要的永恒问题，它清晰而又智慧的处理方式是无与伦比的——《心之道》是一本重要的书。
——葛瑞格•摩顿森（《三杯茶》作者）
瓦兹也许是为西方阐释东方行为准则的当代阐释者中最重要的一位，他有一种罕见的天赋，能“优雅地书写那些不可书写之物”。
——《洛杉矶时报》
《心之道》并不是要让我们去逃避，而是让我们能在碰巧身处之地继续——继续生活下去，而不去想象推动世界，乃至下一个时刻运行的负担是我们的。它不是一种虚无主义的哲学，而是一种基于现状的哲学——我们应该活在当下，应该坦率地认识到，我们存在于一个破碎的波峰处。
——菲利普・韦尔赖特（《艺术与文学》）
这本书完全逆转了所有关于人类现状的一般思路。这个世界的危机状况迫使我们面对这样一个问题：一个人如何生活在一个，许多人都被剥夺了宗教信仰的安慰，他永远不能从中获得安全感的世界？作者指出这个问题本身包含着它的解答——最高的幸福，精神洞察与确信都只能在这样一种认识中被找到，即无常和不安全感是生活中不可避免、不可分割的一部分。由简单而明晰的方式写就，这本书是一部及时的作品。
——（伦敦）《书籍交换》

【编辑推荐】
◎社会景观考古的巅峰作品
◎以一种更具才气和诗性的语言，本书表达了与德勒兹、瓜塔里、本雅明和福柯相似的怀疑
◎资本主义每时每刻都在操控我们的生活，睡眠作为最后的抵抗，也难逃被终结的命运
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【内容简介】
21世纪资本主义不断扩张，每时每刻都在操控我们的生活，迫使我们陷入无尽的奔忙，让我们注意力涣散，感知力受损，并破坏着日常生活的方方面面。人类生命已经被裹挟进了没有间歇的持续状态，不停地运行。
睡眠是人们从纷繁世界中抽身而退且暂作修整的必要行为。由于它本质上不能带来效益，给生产、流通和消费造成的损失难以估量，因此永远与24/7体制的要求相冲突。资本主义对睡眠的侵蚀也愈演愈烈。以北美地区为例，20世纪初的人每天要睡10个小时，上一代人睡8个小时，如今北美成年人平均每晚睡大约6.5个小时。也许，我们将进入无眠时代。
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【媒体及名人推荐】
数码乌托邦正在网状地捕捉消费者的每一个踪迹和冲动，使其快速无产阶级化。 我们须拿出超控制艺术、自由和梦想，来反制被自动控制的这个社会，去开始一个新的关怀时代。这本《24/7:晚期资本主义与睡眠的终结》是对我们的一记当头棒喝！
——陆兴华，哲学家，同济大学哲学系副教授
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一本魅力十足的小书。
——《纽约时报》
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这篇驳斥精良凝练的程度有如一行纯可卡因。
——《洛杉矶书评》
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一本黑暗而充满才气的书。
——迈克尔·哈特（Michael Hardt） 《艺术论坛》（Art forum）
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一场关于现代垄断资本主义如何辗转潜入到我们生活最私密的部分的讨论，睿智又有趣……《24/7》探索的是生活在当今时代无休止的新自由资本主义和它复杂多样的影响之下的人类个体、人类梦境和这个种族的未来，这探索极为精细巧妙。
——反击（Counter Punch）
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《24/7》是克拉里社会景观考古的巅峰作品，大概也是这一类书中最值得注意的作品。它的作者是这个星球上思想最为透彻新颖的研究者之一，他的博学为它提供了丰富的信息来源。在《24/7》里，克拉里对广阔繁多的知识碎块天衣无缝的编织组合，让人联想起米歇尔·福柯的作品……它具有一种道德热情的烙印，这为克拉克的论争提供了燃料，也突出强调了那些岌岌可危的事物，尤其是人类的未来——既在物质层面上，也在情感层面上。另外，它极具可读性。
——《流行议题网》（Pop Matters）
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克拉克提出的观点很机智……狡黠富有远见。
——欧文·蒙哥马利（Erwin Montgomery），克里斯汀·鲍姆家萨博 《新调查》
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24/7式的电子交易的幻影将商品深深地印刻进我们身体的肌理，独独留下睡眠以供片刻喘息。乔纳森·克拉里以其对于看似永恒的当下的敏锐批判刷新了马尔库塞《单向度的人》。
——麦肯基· 沃克（McKenzie Wark）， 《解体的景观》（The Spectacle of Disintegration）作者
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（在24/7式的世界里）我们在被迫持续生产的同时，消耗我们自己、我们的世界以及想象一个共同未来的集体能力。这是对当代生活的模式和节奏的绝佳评论。
——朱迪· 迪恩（Jodi Dean），
《共产主义的视域》（The Communist Horizon）

No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rudiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished life of Nietzsche while simultaneously assessing the philosophical implications of his morality, religion, and art. Struggling to break away from the oppressive burdens of the past, Nietzsche invented a unique philosophy based on compulsive self-consciousness and constant self-revision. As groundbreaking as it will be long-lasting, this biography offers a brilliant, multifaceted portrait of a towering figure.

存在主义是现代西方哲学中影响极大、流行极广、风行一时的哲学流派。其主要代表人物就是法国哲学家萨特。本书由两篇构成：《存在主义是一种人道主义》和《今天的希望：与萨特的谈话》。前者发表于1946年，后一篇发表于1980年去世前不久，其中萨特一再强调，他的存在主义本质上是一种对人生充满希望的乐观主义哲学。

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The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca, statesman, philosopher, advocate and man of letters, was born at Cordoba in Spain around 4 BC. He rose to prominence in Rome, pursuing a career in the courts and political life, for which he had been trained, while also acquiring celebrity as an author of tragedies and essays. Falling foul of successive emperors (Caligula in AD 39 and Claudius in AD 41), he spent eight years in exile, allegedly for an affair with Caligula's sister. Recalled in AD 49, he was made praetor and was appointed tutor to the boy who was to become, in AD 54, the emperor Nero. On Nero's succession, Seneca acted for some eight years as an unofficial chief minister. The early part of this reign was remembered as a period of sound government, for which the main credit seems due to Seneca. His control over Nero declined as enemies turned the emperor against him with representations that his popularity made him a danger, or with accusations of immorality or excessive wealth. Retiring from public life he devoted his last three years to philosophy and writing, particularly the Letters to Lucilius. In AD 65 following the discovery of a plot against the emperor, in which he was thought to be implicated, he and many others were compelled by Nero to commit suicide. His fame as an essayist and dramatist lasted until two or three centuries ago, when he passed into literary oblivion, from which the twentieth century has seen a considerable recovery.
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《理想国》涉及柏拉图思想体系的各个方面，包括哲学、伦理、教育、文艺、政治等内容，主要是探讨理想国家的问题。
《理想国》一书是柏拉图的一篇重要对话录，对话录里柏拉图以苏格拉底之口通过与其他人对话的方式设计了一个真、善、美相统一的政体，即可以达到公正的理想国。柏拉图的理想国是人类历史上最早的乌托邦。在他的理想国里统治者必须是哲学家，他认为现存的政治都是坏的，人类的真正出路在于哲学家掌握政权，也只有真正的哲学家才能拯救当时城邦所处的危机。这种信念构成了柏拉图成熟的政治哲学体系的核心。在他的眼里“哲学家”有着特殊的内涵。他认为哲学家是最高尚、最有学识的人，而这种贤人统治下的贤人政体就是最好是政体。所以，只有建立以哲学家为国王的国家才是最理想的国家。这个国家就是存在于天上的模范国家。
在他看来，哲学家的本质是具有知识，具有智慧、正义、善的美德，只有哲学家才能达到对国家最高理念的认识，即对“善”的把握，而其他人也只能把握“意见”而已。治国作为一门知识，也只有哲学家才能掌握它，进而有资格执政，也就是说只有哲学家才能达到对于国家理念的认识，知道“理想国”应该怎样组织、怎样治理。这样，所谓哲学家执政，就被柏拉图理解为高超的智慧、真实的知识、完美的德行和绝对最高权力的结合。他坚信只有哲学家才可拯救城邦和人民，哲学家是理想国必然的统治者。
人类追求的正义与善就是柏拉图理想国的主题，他认为国家、政治和法律要朝向真正的存在并与人的灵魂相关才有意义。在《理想国》里苏格拉底刚开始讨论的话题就是“正义”问题，由此我们可以看到柏拉图对正义有着多么强烈的憧憬与向往！他认为绝对的正义在神那里，这正好印证了对话结尾的宣言，“让我们永远走向上的路，追求正义和智慧”。正义和智慧不仅是国家的主题，也可以说是整个宇宙存在的本质，因为国家的起点“就是永无止境的时间以及时间带来的变化”。
柏拉图的正义表现在爱情上就是节制。在我们很多人看来，柏拉图式的爱情似乎是精神恋的代名词，用来指称那种超越时间、空间，不以占有对方肉体为目的的只存在于灵魂间的爱情。而实际上柏拉图式爱情的真谛指的是一种对节制的崇尚，对善和美的追求。

Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless of time and place. Today we ask the same crucial questions about law, authority, justice, and freedom that Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville faced in previous centuries.
In this lively and enlightening book, Professor Steven B. Smith introduces the wide terrain of political philosophy through the classic texts of the discipline. Works by the greatest thinkers illuminate the permanent problems of political life, Smith shows, and while we may not accept all their conclusions, it would be a mistake to overlook the relevance of their insights.

本书公认为是维特根斯坦的权威传记，作者不仅对维特根斯坦哲学发展着墨很多，也还原了这位伟大哲学家的丰富个人性的一面，文笔流畅，可读性强，可谓雅俗共赏。此插图精装本，用近百幅照片，和文字相配，可以让读者更好地欣赏维特根斯坦伟大而丰富的一生。

Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as one of its prophets.
The need for a new English translation has been felt for many years. The old version was marred by many inaccuracies and misunderstandings, and its recurrent use of the archaic "thou" was seriously misleading. Now Professor Walter Kaufmann, a distinguished writer and philosopher in his own right who was close to Buber, has retranslated the work at the request of Buber's family. He has added a wealth of informative footnotes to clarify obscurities and bring the reader closer to the original, and he has written a long "Prologue" that opens up new perspectives on the book and on Buber's thought. This volume should provide a new basis for all future discussions of Buber.

The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.

After D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts stands as the godfather of Zen in America. Often taken to task for inspiring the flimsy spontaneity of Beat Zen, Watts had an undeniably keen understanding of his subject. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1957 classic The Way of Zen, which has been reissued. Watts takes the reader back to the philosophical foundations of Zen in the conceptual world of Hinduism, follows Buddhism's course through the development of the early Mahayana school, the birth of Zen from Buddhism's marriage with Chinese Taoism, and on to Zen's unique expression in Japanese art and life.
As a Westerner, Watts anticipates the stumbling blocks encountered with such concepts as emptiness and no-mind, then illustrates with flawlessly apt examples. Many popular books have been written on Zen since Watts' time, but few have been able to muster the rare combination of erudition and clarity that have kept The Way of Zen in readers' hands decade after decade. --Brian Bruya
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as “one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world,” and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to readers everywhere.

One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In "Modern Social Imaginaries", Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the differences among modernities, Taylor sets out his idea of the social imaginary, a broad understanding of the way a given people imagine their collective social life.Re-telling the history of Western modernity, Taylor traces the development of a distinct social imaginary. Animated by the idea of a moral order based on the mutual benefit of equal participants, the Western social imaginary is characterized by three key cultural forms - the economy, the public sphere, and self-governance. Taylor's account of these cultural formations provides a fresh perspective on how to read the specifics of Western modernity: how we came to imagine society primarily as an economy for exchanging goods and services to promote mutual prosperity, how we began to imagine the public sphere as a metaphorical place for deliberation and discussion among strangers on issues of mutual concern, and how we invented the idea of a self-governing people capable of secular "founding" acts without recourse to transcendent principles.Accessible in length and style, "Modern Social Imaginaries" offers a clear and concise framework for understanding the structure of modern life in the West and the different forms modernity has taken around the world.

本书全面阐述了科学与学术的本性、精神、人的存在，理性、研究、教育与传授、交流、大学作为一种制度等内容。

《论语新解》汇集前人对《论语》的注疏、集解，力求融会贯通，“一以贯之”，再加上作者自己的理解予以重新阐释。

This is an edition of The Communist Manifesto with related documents. A 30-page introduction traces the trajectory of Marx's thought from the 1840s onward and provides background on the political, social and intellectual contexts of which the Manifesto was an historical product. Accompanying the Manifesto are 8 additional documents that show the evolution of and influences on Marx's thought over time. A Marx-Engels chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, illustrations, a glossary of terms and an index are also included.

《沉重的肉身:现代性伦理的叙事纬语》的叙事纬语从人民伦理转到自由个体伦理，主要围绕中欧两位当代作家的叙事，以探讨两种不同的个体自由伦理的差异。