The Socrates Express : : in Search of Life Lessons From Dead Philosophers
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Introduction: Departure -- Dawn. How to get out of bed like Marcus Aurelius ; How to wonder like Socrates ; How to walk like Rousseau ; How to see like Thoreau ; How to listen like Schopenhauer -- Noon. How to enjoy like Epicurus ; How to pay attention like Simone Weil ; How to fight like Gandhi ; How to be kind like Confucius ; How to appreciate the small things like Sei Shōnagon -- Dusk. How to have no regrets like Nietzsche ; How to cope like Epictetus ; How to grow old like Beauvoir ; How to die like Montaigne -- Epilogue: Arrival.
Retraces the journeys of forefront intellectuals from Epicurus and Gandhi to Thoreau and Beauvoir to illuminate how their practical and spiritual lessons can be applied in today's unsettled world.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 330 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781501129018
1501129015
SUBJECTS
Weiner, Eric, -- 1963- -- Travel.
Philosophy -- Miscellanea.