Examined Lives From Socrates to Nietzsche

Name: Examined Lives From Socrates to Nietzsche
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ISBN: 9780374150853

ISBN-10: 0374150850

ISBN-13: 9780374150853

Edition: 2011

Authors: James Miller

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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. InExamined 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…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/4/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

James Miller, Professor of Political Science and Director of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, is the author of The Passion of Michel Foucault and Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy.



Introduction


Socrates


Plato


Diogenes


Aristotle


Seneca


Augustine


Montaigne


Descartes


Rousseau


Kant


Emerson


Nietzsche


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index