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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Collection of 12 mini biographies of various philosophers including Socrates, Kant, Descartes, Montaigne, Emerson , Rousseau etc. Regrettably I was only able to read 5 or 6 of the biographies. However I was interested in the backgrounds and lives of Montaigne, Emerson and Seneca and found interesting factors that influenced their writings. Well written. ( )
Still, while Examined Lives succeeds as a historical resource, there's a nagging sense of unrealized potential here. Miller concludes with a disappointingly ambivalent sell of philosophy as a way of life. Although he insists this ancient notion is still a "real alternative" to faith-based religion and the dry academicism of scientific reason, there's no cogent attempt to define what this "alternative" actually is. Miller weakens his own project when he admits that today we "lack the specific spiritual resources and cultural contexts" to adequately follow these philosophers' examples. Considering that these individual quests for enlightenment often led to persecution, madness, and relatively short existences, what can we really learn from, say, Plato's supposed cause of death (lice infestation)? More relevant connections to 21st-century culture could have allowed Examined Lives to have a fuller life of its own—one that might have extended beyond an undergraduate philosophy syllabus.
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, it was the philosophers who offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth living. Here, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve famous philosophers. With a flair for paradox and rich anecdote, this 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.--From publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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