The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers /
We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel, to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and global travel in...
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New York :
Avid Reader Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.