The Socrates Express
- Автор: Вейнер Эрик
- Год: 2020
- Язык: английский
- Год: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
- Жанр: География, путевые заметки
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We contemplate for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty and find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope.
Eric Weiner, *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Geography of Bliss* , combines his twin passions for philosophy and global travel in a pilgrimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from philosophers around the world, from Marcus Aurelius to Arthur Schopenhauer, Confucius to Montaigne. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport) he traversed thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi,...
Killed by a tennis ball!: He was playing a game called courte-paume, or court tennis, a precursor to the modern game, which used a heavier ball. But, stilclass="underline" killed by a tennis ball!
Que sais-je: Que sçay-je in the Middle French that Montaigne spoke.
“He is a thinker who attacks”: Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart (New York: New Directions, 1960), 77.
not bad at all: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet, said something similar. “Don’t worry. It’s not bad. No, not so bad,” he said, just before dying. Patrick Cockburn, “Assassin ‘Told Guards Bullets Were Fake,’ ” The Independent, November 8, 1995.
“Persuade yourself that each new”: Quoted in Pierre Hadot, What Is Ancient Philosophy? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 196.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING
GENERAL READING ON PHILOSOPHY
Craig, Edward. Philosophy: A Brief Insight. New York: Sterling, 2002.
Curnow, Trevor. Ancient Philosophy and Everyday Life. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
———. Wisdom: A History. London: Reaktion, 2015.
Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and the Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926.
Hadot, Pierre. Philosophy as a Way of Life. Translated by Michael Chase. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1995.
———. What Is Ancient Philosophy? Translated by Michael Chase. London: Belknap, 2002.
Jaspers, Karl. The Great Philosophers: The Foundations. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.
Lehrer, Keith, B. Jeannie Lum, Beverly A. Slichta, and Nicholas D. Smith, eds. Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom. New York: Springer, 1996.
Macfie, Alexander, ed. Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy: A Reader. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Magee, Bryan. Confessions of a Philosopher: A Journey Through Western Philosophy. New York: Random House, 1997.
———. The Great Philosophers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
———. Ultimate Questions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.
Miller, James. Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Monk, Ray, and Frederic Raphael, eds. The Great Philosophers: From Socrates to Turing. London: Orion, 2001.
Needleman, Jacob. The Heart of Philosophy. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Nozick, Robert. The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Rodgers, Nigel, and Mel Thompson. Philosophers Behaving Badly. London: Peter Owen, 2005.
Solomon, Robert. The Joy of Philosophy: Thinking Thin versus the Passionate Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Solomon, Robert, and Kathleen Higgins. A Short History of Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Sternberg, Robert, and Jennifer Jordan, eds. A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Van Norden, Bryan, and Jay Garfield. Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Walker, Michelle. Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Warburton, Nigel. Philosophy: The Basics. London: Routledge, 1992.
GENERAL READING ON TRAIN TRAVEL
Nye, David. American Technological Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.
Quinzio, Jeri. Food on the Rails: The Golden Era of Railroad Dining. New York: Rowan & Littlefield, 2014.
Revill, George. Railway. London: Reaktion, 2012.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century. Oakland: University of California Press, 1977.
Wolmar, Christian. The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America. New York: Public Affairs, 2012.
Zoellner, Tom. Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World—from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief. New York: Penguin, 2014.
1: HOW TO GET OUT OF BED LIKE MARCUS AURELIUS
Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Translated by Gregory Hays. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
Briley, Anthony. Marcus Aurelius: A Biography. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966.
Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. Translated by Justin O’Brien. New York: Vintage International, 1991.
Hadot, Pierre. The Inner Citadeclass="underline" The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Translated by Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Kellogg, Michael. The Roman Search for Wisdom. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2014.
McLynn, Frank. Marcus Aurelius: A Life. New York: Da Capo, 2008.
Needleman, Jacob, ed. The Essential Marcus Aurelius. Translated by John Piazza. New York: Penguin, 2008.
2: HOW TO WONDER LIKE SOCRATES
Gower, Barry, and Michael Stokes, eds. Socratic Questions: New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and Its Significance. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Johnson, Paul. Socrates: A Man for Our Times. New York: Penguin, 2011.
Kreeft, Peter. Philosophy 101 by Socrates: An Introduction to Philosophy via Plato’s Apology. San Francisco: Ignatius, 2002.
May, Hope. On Socrates. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.
Morrison, Donald, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Socrates. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Plato. Plato: Complete Works. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997.
Taylor, C. C. Socrates: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
3: HOW TO WALK LIKE ROUSSEAU
Amato, Joseph. On Foot: A History of Walking. New York: New York University Press, 2004.
Damrosch, Leo. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Delaney, James. Starting with Rousseau. New York: Continuum, 2009.
Gros, Frederic. A Philosophy of Walking. Translated by John Howe. New York: Verso, 2015.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions. Ware, Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth, 1996.
———. Emile: or On Education. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
———. Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated by Peter France. New York: Penguin, 1979.
———. The Social Contract and Discourses. London: Everyman’s Library, 1973.
Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust: A History of Walking. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Wokler, Robert. Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford, 1995.
4: HOW TO SEE LIKE THOREAU
Cameron, Sharon. Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau’s Journal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.