哲學銘言與解釋

市面上不時可以看到有人引用哲學家的話,但是用法不見得正確(或者說,符合學界的理解),甚至有時候會看到一整組的哲學家銘言錄。

我覺得這種銘言有市場,或許我們可以一起整理一篇文章,介紹這些銘言在學術上的意義。

World Philosophy Day 2014: Best Philosophical Quotes to Celebrate Human Thought 這篇文章裡面就有一些,或許可以從這些開始:

“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” - Simone de Beauvoir

“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” –
Thomas Hobbes

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does
it make a sound?” – Bishop George Berkeley

“One cannot step twice in the same river” – Heraclitus

“Man is condemned to be free” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his
pleasures” – Democritus

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,
but their inward significance” - Aristotle

“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce” - Karl
Marx

“This has always been a man’s world, and none of the reasons that
have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate” - Simone de
Beauvoir

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up
their minds to be good or evil” - Hannah Arendt