
Breakfast with Socrates
An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Breakfast with Socrates
An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day
About this book
Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith thought he would, and so with dry wit and marvelous invention, Smith whisks you through a typical day, injecting a little philosophy into it at every turn. Wake up with Descartes, go to work with Plato and Nietzsche, visit the gym with Kant, have sex with Ovid (or Simone de Beauvoir). As the day unfolds, Smith grounds complex, abstract ideas in concrete experience, giving you an informal introduction to applying philosophy to everyday life. Not only does Breakfast with Socrates cover the basic arguments of philosophy, it brings an irresistible, insouciant charm to its big questions, waking us up to the richest possible range of ideas on how to live. Neither breakfast, lunch, nor dinner will ever be the same again.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Waking Up
- 2 Getting Ready
- 3 Traveling to Work
- 4 Being at Work
- 5 Going to the Doctor
- 6 Having Lunch with Your Parents
- 7 Playing Hooky
- 8 Shopping
- 9 Booking a Holiday
- 10 Going to the Gym
- 11 Taking a Bath
- 12 Reading a Book
- 13 Watching TV
- 14 Cooking and Eating Dinner
- 15 Going to a Party
- 16 Arguing with Your Partner
- 17 Having Sex
- 18 Falling Asleep and Dreaming
- AFTERWORD
- FUTHER READING
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR