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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 183.2
EAN num: 9781585421923
ISBN number: 1585421928
Label: Tarcher
Manufacturer: Tarcher
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: October 14, 2002
Publishing house: Tarcher
Release Date: October 10, 2002
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Provides step by step guidance on how to harness Socrates' methods to vastly enhance your own creativity and autonomy. Author shares the seven keys to using one's mind to the utmost. Softcover.
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I received this book as a gift from someone who knows I love reading Plato's dialogues. Not usually drawn to reading, I hesitated to open this text... to my delight, I was pleasantly surprised with the contents. This book is an amazing text that takes the thoughts and ideas of Socrates and breaks them down into chunks that can be addressed individually within your personal, social, and professional life. This is NOT a teaching methods book; rather, it is a book that offers ways for you to live more like Socrates. I am a teacher, however, and it is very helpful in showing me how to promote inquiry in my working realm, which happens to be the classroom. The structure of the text is such that you can read a few pages and put it down for any amount of time, and pick up right where you left off; it is more of a "workbook" than a "novel", providing outlines, examples, and activities. Direct passages from the dialogues are quoted and little interesting tidbits of info regarding Socrates' works, times, points of view, etc. are offered in an extremely interesting way. I have recommended this book to many people, in all different walks of life. Great for experienced Socrates readers, Socrates novices, general philosophical or even non-philosophical enthusiasts, and everyone in between.
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I was unsure before I read this book exactly how Socrates could help me in my profession, managing people.Now I know don't know why I waited so long to find out.The book is a very easy read,well thought out and full of excellent thought provoking ideas.Although appling Socrate's way may not always be a simple process in life, the more I do use his methods the better I feel and the better my results are. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand how to be a better person.
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That's really all I have to say. This is a simple-minded self-help book. It's fine if you want some simple pieces of traditional morality (to thine own self be true, etc.) spun in a vaguely business-speak way. BIt's not so clear why Gross has to hang this stuff on Socrates; arguably, Plato's Socrates was rather more challenging than this.Gross may be inspiring for some readers, and if that's your case, then great. If you really want to learn to think, I'd advise an author who will challenge you rrather more. Such as Plato himself. It's pretty amazing to me that this book got so many stars.
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I bought the book because I would like to engage in the dialogue, often called Socratic Method, with my students and myself. I'm two thirds of the way through Socrates' Way, and I'm yet to learn anything. This is how we pay the price for the convenience of Amazon - I would never have checked this book out of a library or a bookstore. Notes I took from a couple of Intro to Philosophy books I read in junior high contain more relevant detail about the life and philoshophy of Socrates. Any self-help book on living deliberately has more in the way of methodology and practical exercises. I will donate this book to a children's library. "Socrates' Way for Adults" remains yet been written, it seems. Meanwhile, if you are interested in learning more about philosophy and applying it to your daily life, I would recommend Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems by Marinoff instead.
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This intellectually stimulating book should be on everyone's bookshelves. The inspirational information is presented for easy reading.
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