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Author Weiner, Eric, 1963- author
Title The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers / Eric Weiner
Publ&date New York : Avid Reader Press, [2020]
©2020
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Edition First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition
ISBN 9781501129018 (hardback)
1501129015 (hardback)
9781982152093 paperback
1982152095 paperback
Descript xix, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Content Introduction : Departure -- Part One: 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 -- Part Two: 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 -- Part Three: 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
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-312) and index
Subject Philosophy -- Miscellanea
Weiner, Eric, 1963- -- Travel