Robert Wright is an American journalist who writes about science, history and religion, including The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, Why Buddhism is True, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bloggingheads.tv.
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).
##在Coursera的“佛教与现代心理学”上知道这个作者,结合进化心理学讨论佛法这个路子非常对胃。其实在接触作者作品以前我就构想过提线木偶的比喻,现在那个string和puppeteer的真面目越发清晰了。
评分 评分##中秋节我没有出游计划,但为了凑凑节日的热闹,还是决定做点好吃的,于是往锅里扔了香叶桂皮开始烀肘子。 在等待的时候又翻开了这本书。 这本书原名《佛学为什么是真的》,但我并不担心这会是一本劝人信佛的书,因为这样的书出版不了。 一开始我就觉得这书新奇,美国人写佛教(...
评分当初,勒内·笛卡尔在探索知识大厦的可靠根基时,不像费希特蹲在符号的井底却以为看到了全部知识学的天空,他找到了“我思故我在”来作为一切推理的开端;他的意思是说,如果我不思,我不一定在,只要我思,我一定存在,那么现在我在思考,“我存在”就必然为真。我在别处提过...
评分##用进化论和脑科学阐释“无我”和“空”,佛教美国化不是走科学路径,就是使用基督教框架,和汉化佛教大异其趣(融合儒道,舍弃汉人不感兴趣的逻辑思辨)。这本书还有个有趣的点是,认为这个世界刚好是伦理问题的最终解决可以通过形而上学问题的最终解决来解决的这样一个世界(但其他可能的世界未必如此),不过这个作者太啰嗦了!
评分 评分这是一本无与伦比的书,它看起来完成了一件不可能完成的任务:佛教能够引导人类脱离苦海、重获新生,背后的科学依据是什么? 基于逻辑思维的哲学因为受制于语言,决定了它解释不了神秘的事物。 于是维特根斯坦有了一句名言:凡是不能言说的,就让它保持沉默。 这是依赖语言的哲...
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