开放的苏格拉底：哲学生活的理由 Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 6, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1324123419

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1324123415

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.3 inches

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书籍简介

苏格拉底始终隐身于众目睽睽之下。我们尊他为西方哲学之父，可他的哲学思想究竟为何？他以谦逊闻名于世，读者却常觉其傲慢居高临下。我们复述他“未经审视的生活不值得过”的箴言，却从未付诸实践去审视自身。我们知道他因“腐蚀青年思想”而受审定罪处决，却随意将苏格拉底对话体作品推荐给当代青年，企图借此启蒙哲学。我们已然遗忘了他当年为何如此危险。在《开启苏格拉底》中，著名哲学家艾格尼丝·卡拉德重现了苏格拉底思想核心的激进主张，并阐明其至今仍是通往美好生活的道路。

卡拉德引人注目地揭示了苏格拉底的惊人发现：我们根本不懂得如何向自己提出重要的问题——关于我们该如何生活，以及如何改变。当人们尚未有机会反思时，身体欲望或社会顺从的力量早已替他们作答。要提出这些至关重要的问题，我们需要指引。卡拉德指出，著名的“苏格拉底方法”真正追求的是揭示人对人存在的意义。人可以以多种方式利用他人——为生存、为享乐、为慰藉——但唯有当你邀请他人协助解答你的疑问、挑战你的答案时，才算真正实现了人与人的深度联结。

卡拉德指出，苏格拉底的方法使我们能够在思考如何管理浪漫爱情、如何面对自身死亡以及如何处理政治问题方面取得进展。在此过程中，她为我们提供了一套全新的生活伦理准则。

Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” yet take no steps to live examined ones. We know that he was tried, convicted, and executed for “corrupting the youth,” but freely assign Socratic dialogues to today’s youths, to introduce them to philosophy. We’ve lost sight of what made him so dangerous. In Open Socrates, acclaimed philosopher Agnes Callard recovers the radical move at the center of Socrates’ thought, and shows why it is still the way to a good life.

Callard draws our attention to Socrates’ startling discovery that we don’t know how to ask ourselves the most important questions―about how we should live, and how we might change. Before a person even has a chance to reflect, their bodily desires or the forces of social conformity have already answered on their behalf. To ask the most important questions, we need help. Callard argues that the true ambition of the famous “Socratic method” is to reveal what one human being can be to another. You can use another person in many ways―for survival, for pleasure, for comfort―but you are engaging them to the fullest when you call on them to help answer your questions and challenge your answers.

Callard shows that Socrates’ method allows us to make progress in thinking about how to manage romantic love, how to confront one’s own death, and how to approach politics. In the process, she gives us nothing less than a new ethics to live by.

作者简介

阿格尼斯·卡拉德是一位匈牙利裔美国哲学家，现任芝加哥大学哲学系副教授。她的主要研究领域为古代哲学与伦理学，同时以通俗著作及公共哲学研究著称。

Agnes Callard is a Hungarian-American philosopher and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. She is also noted for her popular writings and work on public philosophy.