How To Be Good - What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?

About the author

Massimo Pigliucci is the K. D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He holds PhDs in evolutionary biology and philosophy. The author or editor of sixteen books, including How to Be a Stoic, he has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Philosophy Now, and the Philosophers' Magazine, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Summary

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?

Foreword

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?

Product details

• Authors: Massimo Pigliucci, Pigliucci Massimo
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2022
• EAN: 9781399804936
• ISBN: 978-1-399-80493-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 460 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Medieval Western philosophy