Examined Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Examined Life write by Robert Nozick. This book was released on 1990-12-15. Examined Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of topics of everyday importance in the Socratic tradition.
Examined Lives
Examined Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Examined Lives write by James Miller. This book was released on 2011-01-04. Examined Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth living. In Examined Lives, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve famous philosophers. Socrates spent his life examining himself and the assumptions of others. His most famous student, Plato, risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant. Diogenes carried a bright lamp in broad daylight and announced he was "looking for a man." Aristotle's alliance with Alexander the Great presaged Seneca's complex role in the court of the Roman Emperor Nero. Augustine discovered God within himself. Montaigne and Descartes struggled to explore their deepest convictions in eras of murderous religious warfare. Rousseau aspired to a life of perfect virtue. Kant elaborated a new ideal of autonomy. Emerson successfully preached a gospel of self-reliance for the new American nation. And Nietzsche tried "to compose into one and bring together what is fragment and riddle and dreadful chance in man," before he lapsed into catatonic madness. With a flair for paradox and rich anecdote, Examined Lives is a book that confirms the continuing relevance of philosophy today—and explores the most urgent questions about what it means to live a good life.
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves write by Stephen Grosz. This book was released on 2014-05-12. The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An easy to understand overview of the process of psychoanalysis with illustrative examples.
Examined Life
Examined Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Examined Life write by Astra Taylor. This book was released on 2009. Examined Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This accompaniment to Taylor's documentary film of the same name, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, is a peripatetic effort to bring philosophy to the streets. Taylor speaks with today's most influential thinkers in settings that give meaning and inspiration to the discussions. Most notable are Peter Singer's thoughts on ethics and consumption in the middle of busy Fifth Avenue, Michael Hardt's talk of revolution in a rowboat in Central Park, and Slavoj iek strolling through a garbage dump while criticizing environmentalism. There are also appearances by Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, and Judith Butler. Both the book and the film attempt to make philosophy approachable, and the majority of the discussions here do just that. Taylor, for better or worse, refrains from any overarching theme or commentary, although her interactions with these thinkers do go beyond mere interviews to productive philosophical debates. As in life, in the end it is the walks and the fruitful conversations that are important. Recommended for public libraries. [Look for the DVD review in a future issue.Ed.]Steven Chabot, Ontario Ministry of Labour, Toronto Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Socrates
Socrates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Socrates write by Luis E. Navia. This book was released on 2009-12-02. Socrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosopher Luis E. Navia presents a compelling portrayal of Socrates in this very readable and well-researched book, which is both a biography of the man and an exploration of his ideas.
