米兰·昆德拉（Milan Kundera, 1929- ），捷克小说家，生于捷克布尔诺市。父亲为钢琴家、音乐艺术学院的教授。生长于一个小国在他看来实在是一种优势，因为身处小国，“要么做一个可怜的、眼光狭窄的人”，要么成为一个广闻博识的“世界性的人”。童年时代，他便学过作曲，受过良好的音乐熏陶和教育。少年时代，开始广泛阅读世界文艺名著。青年时代，写过诗和剧本，画过画，搞过音乐并从事过电影教学。总之，用他自己的话说， “我曾在艺术领域里四处摸索，试图找到我的方向。”50年代初，他作为诗人登上文坛，出版过《人，一座广阔的花园》（1953）、《独白》（1957）以及《最后一个五月》等诗集。但诗歌创作显然不是他的长远追求。最后，当他在30岁左右写出第一个短篇小说后，他确信找到了自己的方向，从此走上了小说创作之路。 1967年，他的第一部长篇小说《玩笑》在捷克出...(展开全部)

米兰·昆德拉（Milan Kundera, 1929- ），捷克小说家，生于捷克布尔诺市。父亲为钢琴家、音乐艺术学院的教授。生长于一个小国在他看来实在是一种优势，因为身处小国，“要么做一个可怜的、眼光狭窄的人”，要么成为一个广闻博识的“世界性的人”。童年时代，他便学过作曲，受过良好的音乐熏陶和教育。少年时代，开始广泛阅读世界文艺名著。青年时代，写过诗和剧本，画过画，搞过音乐并从事过电影教学。总之，用他自己的话说， “我曾在艺术领域里四处摸索，试图找到我的方向。”50年代初，他作为诗人登上文坛，出版过《人，一座广阔的花园》（1953）、《独白》（1957）以及《最后一个五月》等诗集。但诗歌创作显然不是他的长远追求。最后，当他在30岁左右写出第一个短篇小说后，他确信找到了自己的方向，从此走上了小说创作之路。 1967年，他的第一部长篇小说《玩笑》在捷克出...(展开全部)

One of the foremost strategists of the American Army in the first decade of the twentieth century warns of the great danger of militarized Japan and forcasts -- 44 years before it actually happened -- the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.

Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the "giant" of ignorance, and in today's hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on dema...(展开全部)

Michael J. Zimmerman investigates the relation between ignorance and moral responsibility. He begins with the presentation of a case in which a tragedy occurs, one to which many people have unwittingly contributed, and addresses the question of whether their ignorance absolves them of blame for what happened. Inspection of the case issues in the Argument from Ignorance, whose c...(展开全部)

Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, and so too has the notion that we can fix environmental problems with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous worldview. The contributors argue that u...(展开全部)

Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, and so too has the notion that we can fix environmental problems with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous worldview. The contributors argue that u...(展开全部)

- The book argues that ignorance, not knowledge, is what drives science - The book provides a fascinating inside-view of the way every-day science is actually done - The book features intriguing case histories of how individual scientists use ignorance to direct their research Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance—...(展开全部)

A dazzling exploration of our wish for innocence and ignorance—and its consequences. Aristotle claimed that “all human beings want to know.” Our own experience proves that all human beings also want not to know. Today, centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerized crowds still follow preposterous prophets, irrational rumors trigger fanatical acts, and magical thinking crowds ou...(展开全部)

Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Kant says that phenomena-things as we know them-consist 'entirely of relations'. His claim that we have no knowledge ...(展开全部)