旅行的藝術:對旅行的期待-2

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如果生活的要義在于追求幸福，那么，除卻旅行，很少有別的行為能呈現這一追求過程中的熱情和矛盾。不論是多么的不明晰，旅行仍能表達出緊張工作和辛苦謀生之外的另一種生活意義。盡管如此，旅行還是很少迫使人去考慮一些超越實際、需要深層思索的哲學層面的問題。我們經常得到應該到何處旅行的勸告，但很少有人告訴我們為什么要到那個地方，又如何到達那個地方，盡管旅行的藝術會涉及一些既不簡單，也非細小的問題，而且，對旅行的藝術的研究可能在一定意義上（也許是微不足道的）幫助人們理解希臘哲人所謂的“由理性支配的積極生活所帶來的幸福”（eudaimonia）或人類昌盛。

If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this questin all its ardour and paradoxesthan our travels. They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside the constraints of work and the struggle for survival. Yet rarely are they considered to present philosophical problemsthat is, issues requiring thought beyond the practical. We are inundated with advice on where to travel to; we hear little of why and how we should go-though the art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonia or human flourishing.