Jean-Paul Sartre. Simone de Beauboir 日本高齢化

Growing, ripening, aging, dying — the passing of time is predestined, inevitable.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning — devotion to individuals, to groups or to causes, social, political, intellectual or creative work. In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion. ~Simone de Beauvoir

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亦或是撰電腦寫程式等，

這些困擾著家中長輩的新科技

都難不倒88歲的日本奶奶若宮正子。

　

＃透過科技與年輕人交流_會忘了自己上了年紀

－若宮正子

　

現在的日本正掀起一場高齡科技化的生活運動，

啟動機器人國家戰略計畫，

投資AI以及機器人技術革新，

希望翻轉老化社會帶來的問題。

到底日本人是怎麼透過科技來養老的

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Back Story

Associated Press

“Je refuse le prix,” Jean-Paul Sartre said on this day in 1964.

With these words, the French writer and philosopher, above, became the first person to freely decline the Nobel Prize.

But the Swedish Academy wasn’t the first to hear them.

A young journalist landed the scoop after tracking down Sartre at a Paris bistro. The 59-year-old “pope of existentialism” was lunching with Simone de Beauvoir, his longtime partner.

Interrupted before the cheese course, Sartre was stunned to hear that he had just been named the academy’s literary laureate. (A week earlier, after learning that he had been nominated for the honor, he wrote to the jury asking not be chosen. His letter didn’t arrive in time.)

That evening, Sartre read a statement to the Swedish press to explain why he refused the prize — and the $53,000 that came with it.

Official honors, he said, exposed his readers “to a pressure I do not consider desirable.”

The jury did not change its decision.

More than a decade later, Sartre, or someone related to him, allegedly asked for the money that he had turned down, according to the Swedish Academy’s former secretary.

This time, it was the academy that declined.

Lara Takenaga wrote today’s Back Story.