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Format:
Book
Title:
Socrates café : a fresh taste of philosophy
ISBN:
9780393049565

9780393322989
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, ©2001.
Physical Description:
232 pages ; 20 cm
Contents:
What is the Question? -- Socrates Cafe -- Seeking Socrates -- We're Socrates -- Who Is Socrates? -- What Is the Socratic Method? -- A Dialogue of One -- Where Am I? -- The Misexamined Life -- Here, Here! -- A Gathering Place -- It Takes a Community -- The Quest for Honesty -- No Place Like Home -- Homeward Bound -- Free at Last -- Brother, Can You Spare a Cell? -- A Wise Place -- Whom Do You Need? -- Friends -- And the Children Shall Lead Me -- Beyond Belief -- Young Sophisticates -- The Philosophers Club -- Younger Folks and Older Folks -- So Old? -- Where Was I When I Needed Me? -- What's Love Got to Do with It? -- What's It All about? -- Remembrance of Philosophizing Past -- The Philosophic Spirit -- Know Thyself at Thine Own Risk -- Socratic Spirits -- Out of This World -- Unexpected Questions -- Embracing the "What Within" -- What's What? -- Inquiring Minds Want to Know -- Why Ask Why? -- ? -- Too Curious? -- Seeking Ignorance -- The Socratic Sensibility -- True Teaching -- Human Excellence.
Summary:
Motivated by charismatic optimism and passionate ideals, the author has traveled around the country, gathering people to participate in Socrates Cafés in bookstores, senior centers, elementary schools and universities, and a prison. Here he recalls what led him to start his itinerant program and recreates some of the most invigorating sessions.
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