The Philosopher and the Wolf
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This book tells the incredible true story of the friendship between a wolf who joins the human world while retaining his wild side and his soulmate, an eccentric philosopher.
This book tells the story of a wolf who joined the human world and lived a life beyond imagination.
In college classrooms, on the road, in shopping malls, on airplanes, on the decks of ferries, wolves live alongside humans.
Brennin, the wolf who has easily adapted to the civilized world, soon shakes up the philosopher's life and worldview.
The philosopher, a representative of reason, learns the true meaning of life from the wolf, a representative of wildness, and realizes the truth about humanity reflected in the mirror of the wolf.
This book, which contains 11 years of the life of a philosopher and a wolf, provides an answer to the question of whether intelligence and wildness can coexist.
It also talks about how to discover one's true self, which has been lost and tamed by the world, and how to go beyond the human form defined by humans.
This book tells the story of a wolf who joined the human world and lived a life beyond imagination.
In college classrooms, on the road, in shopping malls, on airplanes, on the decks of ferries, wolves live alongside humans.
Brennin, the wolf who has easily adapted to the civilized world, soon shakes up the philosopher's life and worldview.
The philosopher, a representative of reason, learns the true meaning of life from the wolf, a representative of wildness, and realizes the truth about humanity reflected in the mirror of the wolf.
This book, which contains 11 years of the life of a philosopher and a wolf, provides an answer to the question of whether intelligence and wildness can coexist.
It also talks about how to discover one's true self, which has been lost and tamed by the world, and how to go beyond the human form defined by humans.
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index
Chapter 1: We Were Once Untamed Animals
human vacant lot
Too primate
Between man and wolf
Chapter 2 Will you be my wolf?
Life invites the wild
I need a big dog
This guy is cute but destructive
Why should I obey?
Walking side by side with the leash off
Existence precedes essence
Sometimes like a younger brother, sometimes like an older brother
Chapter 3 Howling in the Classroom
An outrageous syllabus
How to capture a woman's heart
Play instinct + fighting instinct
Even if you talk, you can't lie
The core of social intelligence
The illusion of social emotions
trickery
mind-reading
Intentionality
Only humans are just enough to be righteous.
Chapter 4: I see a person who is guild to you.
Let's play a little rough
Beautiful run
Memories of Electric Shock
Evil electric reciprocating box
Evil is surprisingly ordinary
From weak to evil
When life bites me
Chapter 5: There is no contract in the wolf's dictionary.
The Saint and the Wolf
God and the Wolf
A hole in the social contract
Which is more barbaric, nature or civilization?
Abigyuhuan of the restaurant
The Contract Between the Wolf, the Cow, and the Tuna
Aboard the lifeboat built on faith
Chapter 6: Is happiness better than a rabbit?
If someone finds out you're a wolf
A corner of the Earth, our own hideaway
Are you happy living like this?
A world addicted to happiness
Just once in a lifetime?
You chase the rabbit, I chase the thought, almost within reach
Inconvenient but good
Happiness is not an emotion
Chapter 7 I Can't Let You Go Yet
The London Diary of an Alcoholic and Three Animals
French Diary: A Season in Hell
I'm afraid of losing your love
A strange heaven seen from a strange hell
Faces of Love
Chapter 8 Time is not a Rolex watch
Stone Ghost
Eternal Summer
Under the sky without you, searching for what you lost
The future isn't about luxury watches.
Arrow of Time
Nina's time is round and round
Chapter 9: Let's meet again in a dream
A walk for just the two of us
Looking at Sisyphus
Day by day, one step of Sisyphus
The best moment of my life
Growling towards life
The Last Me
To my wolf brother
Acknowledgements
Translator's Note
human vacant lot
Too primate
Between man and wolf
Chapter 2 Will you be my wolf?
Life invites the wild
I need a big dog
This guy is cute but destructive
Why should I obey?
Walking side by side with the leash off
Existence precedes essence
Sometimes like a younger brother, sometimes like an older brother
Chapter 3 Howling in the Classroom
An outrageous syllabus
How to capture a woman's heart
Play instinct + fighting instinct
Even if you talk, you can't lie
The core of social intelligence
The illusion of social emotions
trickery
mind-reading
Intentionality
Only humans are just enough to be righteous.
Chapter 4: I see a person who is guild to you.
Let's play a little rough
Beautiful run
Memories of Electric Shock
Evil electric reciprocating box
Evil is surprisingly ordinary
From weak to evil
When life bites me
Chapter 5: There is no contract in the wolf's dictionary.
The Saint and the Wolf
God and the Wolf
A hole in the social contract
Which is more barbaric, nature or civilization?
Abigyuhuan of the restaurant
The Contract Between the Wolf, the Cow, and the Tuna
Aboard the lifeboat built on faith
Chapter 6: Is happiness better than a rabbit?
If someone finds out you're a wolf
A corner of the Earth, our own hideaway
Are you happy living like this?
A world addicted to happiness
Just once in a lifetime?
You chase the rabbit, I chase the thought, almost within reach
Inconvenient but good
Happiness is not an emotion
Chapter 7 I Can't Let You Go Yet
The London Diary of an Alcoholic and Three Animals
French Diary: A Season in Hell
I'm afraid of losing your love
A strange heaven seen from a strange hell
Faces of Love
Chapter 8 Time is not a Rolex watch
Stone Ghost
Eternal Summer
Under the sky without you, searching for what you lost
The future isn't about luxury watches.
Arrow of Time
Nina's time is round and round
Chapter 9: Let's meet again in a dream
A walk for just the two of us
Looking at Sisyphus
Day by day, one step of Sisyphus
The best moment of my life
Growling towards life
The Last Me
To my wolf brother
Acknowledgements
Translator's Note
Detailed image
Into the book
Let's think of the wolf as a clearing in the forest.
The dense forest is so dark that the trees within it are difficult to see.
But the empty space is a space where hidden things come to light.
I want to show that the wolf is like a vacant lot in the human soul.
The wolf shows us the hidden side of humanity that we define as human, not the human we claim to be, but the human being that really exists.
---From "Chapter 1 We Were Once Untamed Animals"
If we look closely and precisely, I want to prove that there is a wolf in every primate story.
The wolf says that the value of primates is crude and meaningless.
And this is what I'm talking about.
The wolf says that the most important things in life can never be calculated.
The wolf says that true value cannot be measured or traded.
And sometimes they say that even if the sky splits in two, you have to do what's right.
Why is it that only humans can live in a thousand different ways, while other life forms are bound by their biological heritage and subordinated to natural history? If this isn't human arrogance, what is?
---From "Chapter 2 Will You Be My Wolf?"
Wolves can talk.
Besides, it is easy for us to understand.
What wolves can't do is lie.
So wolves are not suited to civilized society.
Neither wolves nor dogs lie to people.
So humans think they are superior to them.
---From "Howling in the Classroom, Chapter 3"
Humans believe and claim that reason is superior to speed or endurance.
But what exactly justifies this? Superiority isn't an objective value that warrants justification.
The moment you say something is superior, the word loses its meaning.
There is no universal standard for judging the various definitions of superiority; humans are simply superior, wolves are superior.
---From "Chapter 4: I See People When I See You"
So, why do at least some of us, if not all, love dogs? Why did I love Brennin? After thinking about it, I think this analogy might be a good one.
Because dogs dig deep, long-forgotten pits in our human souls.
In that pit, we live before we became primates.
That's exactly what we were like when we were wolves.
This wolf knows that happiness can never be achieved through calculation.
This wolf also knows that a true relationship can never be established through a contract.
First, there is faith.
This must be protected even if the sky falls.
Calculations and contracts always come next.
Because the primate in our soul can never come before the wolf.
---From "Chapter 5: There is no contract in the wolf's dictionary"
As I sat on the long lawn, watching Brennin stalk a rabbit, I realized that in life I too should chase rabbits, not emotions.
The best moments in our lives, the moments we would say we are happiest, are both joyful and terribly unpleasant.
Because happiness is not an emotion, it is a way of being.
If you focus on emotions, you will miss the point.
---From "Chapter 6: Is Happiness Better Than a Rabbit?"
Love has many faces.
If you love, you have to be strong enough to see it all.
Because philia is inherently much harsher and more cruel than we would like to admit.
The one essential condition for philia is will, not emotion.
Philia, the love you feel for your fellow man, is the will to do something for him.
The will to do something even if you really don't want to, even if it makes you feel creepy and sick, even if the cost is so enormous that you can't bear it.
---From "Chapter 7 I Can't Let You Go Yet"
For humans, there is no such thing as a perfect moment.
Every human moment is impure.
Moments are clouded by memories of the past and expectations of the future.
At every moment of our lives, the arrow of time turns us pale and dies.
But humans believe that we are superior to other animals.
---From "Chapter 8: Time is not a Rolex Watch"
In conclusion, I was once a wolf.
Although I am a creature of time, I still remember that there is no beginning or end, but only the best moments scattered throughout life, like scattered grains of barley at harvest time.
The dense forest is so dark that the trees within it are difficult to see.
But the empty space is a space where hidden things come to light.
I want to show that the wolf is like a vacant lot in the human soul.
The wolf shows us the hidden side of humanity that we define as human, not the human we claim to be, but the human being that really exists.
---From "Chapter 1 We Were Once Untamed Animals"
If we look closely and precisely, I want to prove that there is a wolf in every primate story.
The wolf says that the value of primates is crude and meaningless.
And this is what I'm talking about.
The wolf says that the most important things in life can never be calculated.
The wolf says that true value cannot be measured or traded.
And sometimes they say that even if the sky splits in two, you have to do what's right.
Why is it that only humans can live in a thousand different ways, while other life forms are bound by their biological heritage and subordinated to natural history? If this isn't human arrogance, what is?
---From "Chapter 2 Will You Be My Wolf?"
Wolves can talk.
Besides, it is easy for us to understand.
What wolves can't do is lie.
So wolves are not suited to civilized society.
Neither wolves nor dogs lie to people.
So humans think they are superior to them.
---From "Howling in the Classroom, Chapter 3"
Humans believe and claim that reason is superior to speed or endurance.
But what exactly justifies this? Superiority isn't an objective value that warrants justification.
The moment you say something is superior, the word loses its meaning.
There is no universal standard for judging the various definitions of superiority; humans are simply superior, wolves are superior.
---From "Chapter 4: I See People When I See You"
So, why do at least some of us, if not all, love dogs? Why did I love Brennin? After thinking about it, I think this analogy might be a good one.
Because dogs dig deep, long-forgotten pits in our human souls.
In that pit, we live before we became primates.
That's exactly what we were like when we were wolves.
This wolf knows that happiness can never be achieved through calculation.
This wolf also knows that a true relationship can never be established through a contract.
First, there is faith.
This must be protected even if the sky falls.
Calculations and contracts always come next.
Because the primate in our soul can never come before the wolf.
---From "Chapter 5: There is no contract in the wolf's dictionary"
As I sat on the long lawn, watching Brennin stalk a rabbit, I realized that in life I too should chase rabbits, not emotions.
The best moments in our lives, the moments we would say we are happiest, are both joyful and terribly unpleasant.
Because happiness is not an emotion, it is a way of being.
If you focus on emotions, you will miss the point.
---From "Chapter 6: Is Happiness Better Than a Rabbit?"
Love has many faces.
If you love, you have to be strong enough to see it all.
Because philia is inherently much harsher and more cruel than we would like to admit.
The one essential condition for philia is will, not emotion.
Philia, the love you feel for your fellow man, is the will to do something for him.
The will to do something even if you really don't want to, even if it makes you feel creepy and sick, even if the cost is so enormous that you can't bear it.
---From "Chapter 7 I Can't Let You Go Yet"
For humans, there is no such thing as a perfect moment.
Every human moment is impure.
Moments are clouded by memories of the past and expectations of the future.
At every moment of our lives, the arrow of time turns us pale and dies.
But humans believe that we are superior to other animals.
---From "Chapter 8: Time is not a Rolex Watch"
In conclusion, I was once a wolf.
Although I am a creature of time, I still remember that there is no beginning or end, but only the best moments scattered throughout life, like scattered grains of barley at harvest time.
---From "Let's Meet Again in a Dream" in Chapter 9
Publisher's Review
***Amazon Europe Bestseller for 6 Consecutive Years***
***Published in 15 countries worldwide***
***Booktase Official Recommended Books***
***Kyunghyang Shinmun's "21st Century Classics" Book Selection***
***Books recommended by critic Lee Dong-jin***
***Books recommended by philosopher Choi Jin-seok***
A commemorative reissue of The Philosopher and the Wolf, commemorating the 12th anniversary of its publication.
“I learned what it means to be human from a wolf.”
A thought that exists only in the space between wolves and humans
11 years with 'Brenin', who realized the true meaning of life
Animals that seemed to have existed on the periphery of our lives for a long time have now become the center of our lives.
'Pet' became 'companion animal', and 'stray cat' became 'stray cat'.
The zoo, which was described as a place filled with childhood memories, is currently embroiled in debate over whether it should exist or not.
It is now not difficult to find vegetarians who do not eat animal products, called 'vegans'.
These changes soon represent a shift in our perception of animals.
It is a sign that we have begun to respect humans as equal living beings, not as beings below us.
The much-loved book "The Philosopher and the Wolf," which tells the story of the friendship between a philosopher and a wolf, celebrates its 12th anniversary and presents it to readers with a new cover and format.
This essay, written in the intimate yet profound style of a philosopher who raised and loved wolves, draws insights into humanity and nature from a wolf who has lived a life beyond imagination, from college lecture halls and on the roads to shopping centers, airplanes, and ferry decks.
This book, which not only captures the affection between animals and humans but also deals with how we can learn about life through it, will be able to reach readers with new meaning as the number of endangered species increases and discussions on animal rights become more active.
“Who We Were Before We Were Tamed”
The human essence hidden behind the mask of intelligence
In the late 1990s, the United States was at a point where wild wolves were on the verge of extinction due to intensive overhunting policies.
In a situation where it was virtually illegal to keep wolves, Brenin had to wear a dog mask to survive.
In situations where they had to hide, they thoroughly deceived people by using 'dogs (Malamutes)' and infiltrated civilized society.
This book shows a wolf roaming the human world wearing a dog's mask, while also focusing on the true face of humans who wear masks of intellect and morality.
In particular, we will compare the characteristics of humans and wolves, which are represented by primates, and examine what the true face of humans is hidden behind the mask.
Unlike primates who seek opportunities to exploit each other, calculate their own gains, and think in terms of social contracts, wolves do not calculate.
Be honest about your desires, don't lie, and build relationships based on trust.
And that appearance is also the appearance of humanity that we have forgotten.
This book illuminates the human nature we hate to acknowledge through its contrast with wolves, while also reminding us of aspects of our souls we have forgotten.
He says that the 'true me' is not the me that is left when the scheme is being devised, but the me that is left when the scheme fails, and that the 'most important me' is not the me that is delighted by the clever scheme and deceives others, but the me that is abandoned after being fooled by the clever scheme.
In a situation where everything has disappeared, we are left at the end, and it makes us look back at the human form that was once a wolf.
“Are humans truly superior to animals?”
Time with the wolf that awakened human arrogance
Animals have evolved into forms that are suited to them, and each form has different superior or useful technologies.
Yet, humans believe and justify that reason is superior to speed or endurance.
They also arbitrarily judge the way animals live.
I believe that only humans can live in thousands of ways, and that other life forms must live dependent on the history of nature.
This book criticizes such human arrogance through life with wolves.
The philosopher discovers in Brenin a kind of beauty that humans can never imitate, and realizes human weakness.
When placed alongside other species whose superior characteristics stand out, humans feel utterly weak.
He also says that to conclude that animals that enter the human world and survive by coping well with their fate are unhappy is to denigrate their intelligence and flexibility.
Ultimately, it forces us to face the uncomfortable truth that the standards of superiority we claim are extremely anthropocentric.
"A human walking the line of time and a wolf walking the circle of moments."
How to live a full life in the moment itself
Humans think of life's time as a straight line.
For humans who run along the line connecting the past and the future, the present is as good as non-existent.
Moreover, humans consider happiness to be a specific emotion and are always searching for a state of satisfaction.
So it's hard to be happy.
On the other hand, wolves live in a circle of moments.
For the wolf, time is a succession of moments, so each moment is complete in itself.
For them, happiness is the same thing repeated forever.
The philosopher learns the meaning of life and happiness by observing Brenin, who is focused on chasing rabbits up the hill and is always happy with the piece of bread he gives him every day.
From the wolf, who clearly sees the 'rabbit' as a real entity rather than an emotion, we learn how to escape the linearity of time and fully enjoy the moments of life.
“A Philosophy for Those Who Have Lost Their True Meaning in Life”
The truth that life has taught me, inviting the wild into its embrace.
The eleven years that the philosopher and the wolf lived together were a harmonious life where intelligence and wildness coexisted.
The philosopher was taming the wolf and at the same time being tamed.
I learned from wolves how to live, and I learned what it means to be human.
Through their vivid anecdotes, this book awakens the wild eyes that sleep within those who have become tamed by the world and lost their true selves.
It is an adventure to find the wildness itself, neither savagery nor evil, but the endangered wolf within us.
As we search for the wolf within us, we naturally raise questions such as which is more savage, nature or civilization, whether humans are truly superior, and what are the differences between the attitudes of humans and animals toward life and death?
And through this, it suggests a path that can lead us beyond the human image defined by humans.
We can find the lost true nature of life in the colorful stories drawn by intelligence and wildness.
***Published in 15 countries worldwide***
***Booktase Official Recommended Books***
***Kyunghyang Shinmun's "21st Century Classics" Book Selection***
***Books recommended by critic Lee Dong-jin***
***Books recommended by philosopher Choi Jin-seok***
A commemorative reissue of The Philosopher and the Wolf, commemorating the 12th anniversary of its publication.
“I learned what it means to be human from a wolf.”
A thought that exists only in the space between wolves and humans
11 years with 'Brenin', who realized the true meaning of life
Animals that seemed to have existed on the periphery of our lives for a long time have now become the center of our lives.
'Pet' became 'companion animal', and 'stray cat' became 'stray cat'.
The zoo, which was described as a place filled with childhood memories, is currently embroiled in debate over whether it should exist or not.
It is now not difficult to find vegetarians who do not eat animal products, called 'vegans'.
These changes soon represent a shift in our perception of animals.
It is a sign that we have begun to respect humans as equal living beings, not as beings below us.
The much-loved book "The Philosopher and the Wolf," which tells the story of the friendship between a philosopher and a wolf, celebrates its 12th anniversary and presents it to readers with a new cover and format.
This essay, written in the intimate yet profound style of a philosopher who raised and loved wolves, draws insights into humanity and nature from a wolf who has lived a life beyond imagination, from college lecture halls and on the roads to shopping centers, airplanes, and ferry decks.
This book, which not only captures the affection between animals and humans but also deals with how we can learn about life through it, will be able to reach readers with new meaning as the number of endangered species increases and discussions on animal rights become more active.
“Who We Were Before We Were Tamed”
The human essence hidden behind the mask of intelligence
In the late 1990s, the United States was at a point where wild wolves were on the verge of extinction due to intensive overhunting policies.
In a situation where it was virtually illegal to keep wolves, Brenin had to wear a dog mask to survive.
In situations where they had to hide, they thoroughly deceived people by using 'dogs (Malamutes)' and infiltrated civilized society.
This book shows a wolf roaming the human world wearing a dog's mask, while also focusing on the true face of humans who wear masks of intellect and morality.
In particular, we will compare the characteristics of humans and wolves, which are represented by primates, and examine what the true face of humans is hidden behind the mask.
Unlike primates who seek opportunities to exploit each other, calculate their own gains, and think in terms of social contracts, wolves do not calculate.
Be honest about your desires, don't lie, and build relationships based on trust.
And that appearance is also the appearance of humanity that we have forgotten.
This book illuminates the human nature we hate to acknowledge through its contrast with wolves, while also reminding us of aspects of our souls we have forgotten.
He says that the 'true me' is not the me that is left when the scheme is being devised, but the me that is left when the scheme fails, and that the 'most important me' is not the me that is delighted by the clever scheme and deceives others, but the me that is abandoned after being fooled by the clever scheme.
In a situation where everything has disappeared, we are left at the end, and it makes us look back at the human form that was once a wolf.
“Are humans truly superior to animals?”
Time with the wolf that awakened human arrogance
Animals have evolved into forms that are suited to them, and each form has different superior or useful technologies.
Yet, humans believe and justify that reason is superior to speed or endurance.
They also arbitrarily judge the way animals live.
I believe that only humans can live in thousands of ways, and that other life forms must live dependent on the history of nature.
This book criticizes such human arrogance through life with wolves.
The philosopher discovers in Brenin a kind of beauty that humans can never imitate, and realizes human weakness.
When placed alongside other species whose superior characteristics stand out, humans feel utterly weak.
He also says that to conclude that animals that enter the human world and survive by coping well with their fate are unhappy is to denigrate their intelligence and flexibility.
Ultimately, it forces us to face the uncomfortable truth that the standards of superiority we claim are extremely anthropocentric.
"A human walking the line of time and a wolf walking the circle of moments."
How to live a full life in the moment itself
Humans think of life's time as a straight line.
For humans who run along the line connecting the past and the future, the present is as good as non-existent.
Moreover, humans consider happiness to be a specific emotion and are always searching for a state of satisfaction.
So it's hard to be happy.
On the other hand, wolves live in a circle of moments.
For the wolf, time is a succession of moments, so each moment is complete in itself.
For them, happiness is the same thing repeated forever.
The philosopher learns the meaning of life and happiness by observing Brenin, who is focused on chasing rabbits up the hill and is always happy with the piece of bread he gives him every day.
From the wolf, who clearly sees the 'rabbit' as a real entity rather than an emotion, we learn how to escape the linearity of time and fully enjoy the moments of life.
“A Philosophy for Those Who Have Lost Their True Meaning in Life”
The truth that life has taught me, inviting the wild into its embrace.
The eleven years that the philosopher and the wolf lived together were a harmonious life where intelligence and wildness coexisted.
The philosopher was taming the wolf and at the same time being tamed.
I learned from wolves how to live, and I learned what it means to be human.
Through their vivid anecdotes, this book awakens the wild eyes that sleep within those who have become tamed by the world and lost their true selves.
It is an adventure to find the wildness itself, neither savagery nor evil, but the endangered wolf within us.
As we search for the wolf within us, we naturally raise questions such as which is more savage, nature or civilization, whether humans are truly superior, and what are the differences between the attitudes of humans and animals toward life and death?
And through this, it suggests a path that can lead us beyond the human image defined by humans.
We can find the lost true nature of life in the colorful stories drawn by intelligence and wildness.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: January 12, 2024
- Page count, weight, size: 344 pages | 140*210*30mm
- ISBN13: 9791155402283
- ISBN10: 1155402286
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