Best Things in Life A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth and the Good Life

Name: Best Things in Life A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth and the Good Life
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ISBN: 9780877849223

ISBN-10: 0877849226

ISBN-13: 9780877849223

Edition: 1984

Authors: Peter. Kreeft

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What are the best things in life?Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and spirit-stretching challenge that disrupted ancient Athens.- What is the purpose of education?- Why do we make love?- What good is money?- Can computers think like people?- Is there a difference between Capitalism and Communism?- What is the greatest good?- Is belief in God like belief in Santa Claus?In twelve short, Socratic dialogs Peter Kreeft explodes contemporary values like success, power and pleasure. And he bursts the modern bubbles of agnosticism and…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 7/12/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Jeff Todd Titon is professor of music at Brown University and author of Downhome Blues Lyrics, Powerhouse for God, and Give Me This Mountain.



Preface


Foreword by Anytus of Athens



Socrates and Peter Pragma



On Education and E.T



On Liberal Education and Careers



On Technology and Inchworms



On Artificial Intelligence and College Presidents



On Superstition and Santa Claus



On Success and the Greatest Good



Socrates and Felicia Flake



On Pot and Happiness



On Rock . . . . and Music



On Sex and Love



On Sexism and Pop Psychology



On Communism and Capitalism


Interlude before Felicia's Oxford Tutorial



On Objective Values


Postscript