The Story of Philosophy是我读过想再读的一本书，前面是YLYK带着读，有点赶时间，现在打算一天一句的节奏彻彻底底地读完，估计没有几年是搞不定的。也许后面节奏会加快，时间浪费在读书上是幸福的事。
今天开始学习《哲学的故事》的第1句：序言中的第1段的第1句。

Introduction
On the uses of Philosophy
There is a pleasure in philosophy, and a lure even in the mirages of metaphysics, which every student feels until the coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain. Most of us have known some golden days in the June of life when philosophy was in fact what Plato calls it, “that dear delight”; when the love of a modestly elusive Truth seemed more glorious, incomparably, than the lust for the ways of the flesh and the dross of the world. And there is always some wistful remnant in us of that early wooing of wisdom."Life has meaning,”we feel with Browning—“to find its meaning is my meat and drink.” So much of our lives is meaningless, a self-cancelling vacillation and futility; we strive with the chaos about us and within; but we would believe all the while that there is something vital and significant in us, could we but decipher our own souls. We want too understand; “life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that are or meet with”; we are like Mitya in The Brothers Karamazov —“one of those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions”; we want to seize the value and perspective of passing things, and so to pull ourselves up out of the maelstrom of daily circumstance. We want to know that the little things are little, and the big things big, before it is too late.We want to see things now as they will seem forever—"in the light of eternity." We want to learn to laugh in the face of the inevitable, to smile even at the looming of death. We want to be whole, to coördinate our energies by criticizing and harmonizing our desires; for coördinated energy is the last word in ethics and politics, and perhaps in logic and metaphysics too."To be a philosopher," said Thoreau, "is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." We may be sure that if we can but find wisdom, all things else will be added unto us. "Seek ye first the good things of the mind," Bacon admonishes us, "and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt." Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

解析

Philosophy哲学，按希腊词源就是指“追求智慧”的意思。
1、主句是There is a pleasure in ... and a lure even in... ，which引导的来补充说明metaphysics。
2、metaphysics：the part of philosophy that is concerned with the basic causes and nature of things it comes from the Greek meta ta physika ("the works after the Physics") 它研究的是本体与世界的关系。形而上学是哲学的一个分支，它试图回答关于现实和存在的根本问题。这里有一些形而上学试图解答的问题：

什么是现实？ —— 我们怎么知道我们所经历的一切是真实的，而不是一个梦或者某种幻觉？
时间是什么？ —— 时间是连续不断的吗？它有开始和结束吗？
为什么存在某物而不是一无所有？ —— 宇宙和万物为什么存在，而不是空空如也？
自由意志真的存在吗？ —— 我们的选择是完全由自己决定的，还是受到某些未知力量的控制？
什么是意识？ —— 我们的思想和感觉是如何产生的？人工智能能否拥有真正的意识？
宇宙有目的或意义吗？ —— 生活和宇宙是否有一个终极的目的或意义，还是我们只是随机存在？
物质和精神是什么关系？ —— 我们的身体和大脑是如何产生思想和情感的？
什么是可能的，什么是不可能的？ —— 我们如何界定“可能性”和“不可能性”？

哲学到底有没有用? 显然是有用的，作者给出的答案是明确肯定的，用pleasure及lure来。其中用了对比，thought的height与economic strife and gain的mart。
人都忙于“油盐柴米酱醋茶”，忘了“琴棋书画诗酒花”。在前者看到后者，是不是很幸福呢。

哲学有种愉悦，即便在形而上学里幻象有种魅力。每一学生都能感觉到，直到物理存在的粗俗必需品将他从思想的极点拖入经济冲突与利益的集市里。

生词
1、lure：an appealing or attractive quality
Tourists are drawn to the area by the lure of the Arizona sunshine.
亚利桑那的日落吸引着游客来到这个地方。

2、mirage：something that you hope for or want but that is not possible or real
A peaceful solution proved to be a mirage.事实证明，和平方案只是幻想。

3、coarse： having a rough quality
We changed this to a lower-protein, higher-fiber, coarser type of diet.
我们把这个改为低蛋白、高纤维素、粗糙的饮食《TED演讲》
4、strife：very angry or violent disagreement between two or more people or groups
He called them love and strife.
他称之为“爱”与“恨”。《苏菲的世界》