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Author:

Weiner, Eric, 1963- author.

Title:

The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers / Eric Weiner.

Edition:

First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Avid Reader Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xix, 330 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Philosophy--Miscellanea.
Weiner, Eric,--1963---Travel.
Travel writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-312) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1501129015
9781501129018

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1184037372

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