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Informationen zum Autor Robert Nozick (1938-2002) is the author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia , which won a National Book Award in 1975, Philosophical Explanations , which received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa in 1982, and The Examined Life . He was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. Klappentext An original work from a preeminent professor of philosophy at Harvard University, in which happiness, dying, creativity, religious faith, sexuality, good and evil, the ideal and the real, are explored in the grand Socratic tradition. Now in paperback, this bestseller will appeal to anyone concerned with inner transformation and personal growth. Zusammenfassung One of this century’s most original philosophical thinkers! Nozick brilliantly renews Socrates’s quest to uncover the life that is worth living. In brave and moving meditations on love! creativity! happiness! sexuality! parents and children! the Holocaust! religious faith! politics! and wisdom! The Examined Life brings philosophy back to its preeminent subject! the things that matter most. We join in Nozick’s reflections! weighing our experiences and judgments alongside those of past thinkers! to embark upon our own voyages of understanding and change.
