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Author Weiner, Eric, 1963- author.

Title The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers / Eric Weiner.

Publication Info. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2020.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  100 WEINER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  100 WEINER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  100 WEINER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  100 WEI    DUE 12-13-23 Billed
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  100 WEINER    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  100 WEI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  100 WEINER    Check Shelf
Edition First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Description xix, 330 pages ; 24 cm
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.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-312) and index.
Subject Philosophy -- Miscellanea.
Weiner, Eric, 1963- -- Travel.
PHILOSOPHY / Essays.
PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers.
TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.
Genre/Form Travel writing.
ISBN 9781501129018
1501129015
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