Robert Rowland Smith

Breakfast with Socrates

An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

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Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith thought he would, and so with dry wit and marvelous invention, Smith whisks you through a typical day, injecting a little philosophy into it at every turn. Wake up with Descartes, go to work with Plato and Nietzsche, visit the gym with Kant, have sex with Ovid (or Simone de Beauvoir). As the day unfolds, Smith grounds complex, abstract ideas in concrete experience, giving you an informal introduction to applying… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4391-4868-6
EAN: 9781439148686
Produktnummer: 7994268
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H19.1 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.0 cm 201 g
Gewicht: 201

Über den Autor

Robert spent the first part of his career as a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the second as a partner in a leading firm of management consultants.He has written for The Independent, been profiled in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, contributed to books on philosophy for children, and broadcast for BBC Radio. Robert now divides his time between consulting, writing, and giving talks about the philosophy of life. He lives in London with his wife and has three daughters.