QUESTIONS IN OUR LIVES 問題天天都多

We keep asking questions since small, both meaningful and meaningless ones. Are human rights political? Does being happy makes us good? And does being good makes us happy? Are human beings especially prone to self-deception? Rather than presenting a set of categorical answers, A. C. Grayling’s book “Thinking of Answers” offers suggestions for how to think from every aspect of a question, and arrive at one's own conclusions. Perhaps sometimes we can reflect on the reason we are asking that particular question, as it may help us to figure out the real answer. For instance, instead of wondering if being happy will make us good, why don’t you make yourself happy first? Got it?

生活裡，我們都愛發問 — 哪怕所問的問題是嚴肅而富真確意義，抑或是無稽而沒甚麼引伸空間：人權是否政治產物？快樂是否能夠讓人生活得更好？美好的生活是否讓人感到快樂？人類是否傾向自欺欺人？這些都有意義，但同時也極難解答。許多作者或許都愛直截了當地記下自己的答案，但A. C. Grayling卻沒這樣做。其著作《Thinking of Answers》嘗試從多角度分析問題答案，再從中歸納出合理的結論。有時候，與其刻板地解決問題，倒不如反問自己為何要問那問題，這樣或許就能推敲出真正答案。快樂是否令人生活得更美好？與其發問，倒不如讓自己更快樂吧！