Breakfast with Socrates
eBook - ePub

Breakfast with Socrates

An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Preface
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. 1 Waking Up
  10. 2 Getting Ready
  11. 3 Traveling to Work
  12. 4 Being at Work
  13. 5 Going to the Doctor
  14. 6 Having Lunch with Your Parents
  15. 7 Playing Hooky
  16. 8 Shopping
  17. 9 Booking a Holiday
  18. 10 Going to the Gym
  19. 11 Taking a Bath
  20. 12 Reading a Book
  21. 13 Watching TV
  22. 14 Cooking and Eating Dinner
  23. 15 Going to a Party
  24. 16 Arguing with Your Partner
  25. 17 Having Sex
  26. 18 Falling Asleep and Dreaming
  27. AFTERWORD
  28. FUTHER READING
  29. INDEX
  30. ABOUT THE AUTHOR