Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith

His books include Derrida and Autobiography, Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday. Urn:oclc:424555440 Republisher_date 20161119113619 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 700 Scandate 20161118083730 Scanner . : Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life Hardcover Smith, Robert Rowland: New. Robert Rowland Smith is a British author and philosopher. Urn:lcp:breakfastwithsoc00smit:epub:244e92ad-54bd-4bf8-afdc-032b8e106a9c Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier breakfastwithsoc00smit Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t41s0ss7b Invoice 1315 Isbn 9781439148679ġ439148678 Lccn 2009033986 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL24487859M Openlibrary_edition Neither breakfast, lunch, nor dinner will ever be the same again.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:26:32.829695 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1115001 Boxid_2 CH1144818 City New York, NY Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st Free Press hardcover ed. ,p>Working out is a version of what Max Weber called the Protestant work ethic - a kind of spiritual exercise, it also leads to worldly vanity.With dry wit and marvelous invention, Smith draws on philosophy, literature, art, politics, and psychology to wake us up to a stunning range of ideas about how to live. Or take going to the gym: As you toil on the treadmill, is your panting a sign of virtue or of vice, of healthy exertion or of unhealthy narcissism? The best price of Breakfast With Socrates By Robert Rowland Smith by Konga in Nigeria is 4,000 NGN Available payment methods are. From waking up in the morning through traveling to work, shopping, eating, going to a party, falling asleep, and dreaming, Smith connects our most mundane habits to the wider world of ideas.Start with waking up: What does it really mean to be awake? How do we know we're not still dreaming? Descartes argues that if you're able to doubt whether you're awake, you are at least thinking, and so you probably exist - no small achievement for first thing in the morning. Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith whisks you through an ordinary day with history's most extraordinary thinkers, explaining what they might have to say about your routine. Have breakfast with Socrates, go to work with Nietzsche, head to the gym with Foucault, then have sex with Ovid (or Simone de Beauvoir).įormer Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith whisks you through an ordinary day with history's most extraordinary thinkers, explaining what they might have to say about your routine. Have breakfast with Socrates, go to work with Nietzsche, head to the gym with Foucault, then have sex with Ovid (or Simone de Beauvoir).

Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith