The Resource The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers, Eric Weiner
The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers, Eric Weiner
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The item The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers, Eric Weiner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xix, 330 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781501129018
- Label
- The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers
- Title
- The Socrates express
- Title remainder
- in search of life lessons from dead philosophers
- Statement of responsibility
- Eric Weiner
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- TOH
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Weiner, Eric
- Dewey number
- 102
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Philosophy
- Weiner, Eric
- PHILOSOPHY / Essays
- PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers
- TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
- Label
- The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers, Eric Weiner
- Bibliography note
- 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
- Control code
- on1184037372
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xix, 330 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501129018
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1184037372
- Label
- The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers, Eric Weiner
- Bibliography note
- 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
- Control code
- on1184037372
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xix, 330 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501129018
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1184037372
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