The Joy of Fish

by Wang Dongyue

Overview

Do you know what does truth or subsistence mean to humanity? What does wisdom or knowledge mean to humanity? Do you really believe humanity has a choice for its future? If you are not sure of the answers to these questions, the short essays in this book may give you a better idea of that.

This book consists of thirty essays that talk about how civilized human beings think, believe, and behave toward truth, goodness, wisdom, and knowledge from different perspectives. These essays were written in a leisure and humorous style, through which readers can easily get a glimpse of the author's philosophical ideas while avoiding difficult philosophical demonstrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765597682
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	09/09/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Wang Dongyue is an independent philosopher in China. He was a medical postgraduate with a master’s degree, but he did not work in the medical field for long. Instead, he thoroughly devoted himself to philosophy for more than 25 years, and finally came out with a three-volume monograph of philosophy. Later he worked as a guest professor of philosophy in a few universities, but he got no stable jobs and could barely support his own life.

This book is a collection of 30 philosophical essays, compiled to give a brief idea of the author’s systematic view of philosophy, which could be a way to avoid the obscure demonstration of philosophy. His other works include A Unified Theory of Evolution: Natural, Mental, and Social, The Decline of Humankind, and A Collection of Cultural Lectures.

The author’s systematic philosophy has a deep insight regarding the evolution of the universe, the logic of the mind as well as human society, which is quite different from common knowledge or common sense. His philosophical ideology could be briefly defined in one sentence: the principle of evolution in weakening and compensation.