商品简介 Notes on the Art of Life is?Haim Shapira's?version of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book – a discursive and intensely?personal collection of thoughts on life; a tribute to the importance of the here and now; the value of the moment and of paying attention to it.? This is a personal, cheerful and idiosyncratic tour through the thoughts and experiences?of philosophers, artists and?academics, finding a path through the contradictions of philosophy and the intractable challenges of life (both existential and mundane). Content includes: ????Exploring a wide range of?philosophies, from?Aristotle to Zhuang Zhu and Epicurus to?Socrates ????Tour the?arts and thoughts of Abd al-Rahman III to Tolstoy, via Chekhov and Goethe ????Examine a myriad of essential topics, from silence and regret to happiness and other small things of absolute importance. And arriving finally at love. This book?is like having a chatty and quite excitable friend guide you round a library of good books and different schools of thought. A companion who aims to comfort and reassure you about the complexities and challenges of life and of thinking about life.
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