我的書齋

說來也奇怪，這本書都算是我早期看的一本英文書。厚厚的五百頁，被我看完了。書裏的內容，很多都是講哲學的歷史（作者是透過一個女孩為我們帶來關於哲學的），我也照看，且看得津津有味。很佩服作者能夠把乏味的東西寫得很形象化，就像看一本小說一樣。

在書的第三頁第二行，寫著“Who are you？” 我知道我是找對了書，我好肯定的對自己說，我會在此書找到答案。我曾經問過自己，也問過別人，問題是我們能否自己用眼睛看自己的臉孔？我們可能看到的只是我們的反映，透過鏡子，透過相片，別人可以看到我們，但是我們自己卻不可以用眼睛去看。曾經有一朋友告知我，看自己是要用我們的心去看的，可是怎樣看？我不明白。曾一度，我為了這個我是誰的問題，想了很久，令自己煩悶，答案當然自己想不出來。看了《Sophie's World》，心好像踏實了些，我也不再想我是誰這問題了。不是我真的明白，而是覺得沒有想這個的需要了。

在看此書時開始﹐我就被“我是誰﹖”這個問題吸引著。在前文提過﹐我曾被這個問題困擾了一段時間。在NLP 的課堂裡﹐我認識了原來“我是誰﹖”對我們是很重要的，它影響著我們的價值觀和信念﹐我們的能力和行為都因不同的價值觀和信念而跟別人有所分別。我認為這可理解為身份。

每一個我們認為重要的目標﹐我們都要問自己一個問題﹐就是我是誰。對於寫作﹐我是誰？我要成為一個靠墊(cushion)﹐開心時﹐我需要一個舒服的靠墊來享受那一刻的美好時光﹔不開心時﹐我也需要一個靠墊﹐讓我可以盡情的發泄心中的不快。

重看在零五年六月。

這裏叫“我的書齋”。如果換了另一個名字，還是我的書齋嗎？這是小女孩帶出來的問題，她問如果她換了另一個名字，她還是她嗎？在我認為，名字都是一個記號，一個方便我們叫喊的一個名詞。親密的兩個人，很多時候都不會叫喚對方的名字，只是一聲溫柔的“喂”就可領會了。

書裏說，早期的哲學探討是關於天文地理的，問是因為他們不再相信富宗教意味的傳說故事。他們嘗試用科學來認知這世界。

在公元前540 至480 年，Heraclitus 提到關於相對的存在，說的是東西有正反兩面，好像病與健康、餓和飽，等等。這和我看過一篇叫八風的文章有點相似。細查一看，八風是出現在宋朝（960 – 1279），比Heraclitus所說的要遲了一千五百年有多。

原來自己好蘇格拉底的。他的想法，我認同。最喜歡的是他的學習態度，當你在人們面前表現得什麼也不知道的時候，就是能夠獲取最多諮詢的時候。對於自己不懂的範疇，我最用心聽，但是有時侯，人們卻不願意分享，說我不會明白。細心想，有時侯我也對別人說“你不會明白的”。為何我們會有這樣的想法呢？

just ask questions, ...... as if he knew nothing
get his opponents to recognize the weakness of their arguments, and, forced into a corner, they would finally be obliged to realize what was right and what was wrong
real understanding must came from within
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.
When we do wrong it is because we don't know any better. That is why it is so important to go on learning.

喜歡字句分享：

You can't experience being alive without realizing that you have to die (p.5)
reading what other people have believed can help us formulate our own view of life (p.13)
it would be pointless to chase after someone who was determined to get away (p.15)
We are more interested in how they thought than in exactly what they thought. (p.31)
understanding will always require some effort (p.39)
philosophy was not something you can learn; but perhaps you can learn to think philosophically. (p.40)
Wisest is she who knows she does not know..... (p.58)
knowing what you don't know is also a kind of knowledge. (p.59)
the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs (p.62)

讓自己反省的話：

it is equally possible that they never get to the bottom of it, although there is a solution somewhere (p.13)
we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder (p.15)
the world will have become a habit ...... people who take the world for granted (p.16)
Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. (p.18)
The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about things they knew absolutely nothing about. (p.59)

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