Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith

Here you will also find an eclectic mix of psychoanalysts, sociologists, painters, psychologists, political writers, anthropologists and writers as well as philosophers to offer their thoughts. Socrates makes very limited appearances (the author suggests that the book may as well have been titled 'Having a Bagel with Hegel' which appealed more to the inner Dr Seuss in me) and Roland Smith does not limit himself to traditional philosophers for inspiration. It's a clever structure for the book though.īoth titles to the book are potentially a bit misleading. It's a wonder he finds time to think at all with all that going on. My first thought was that Roland Smith leads an enviously full life since his typical day includes not only waking up, getting ready, travelling to work, being at work, taking a bath, cooking and eating, watching TV, reading a book and falling asleep, but he also manages to find time to go to the doctor, have lunch with his parents, bunk off, go shopping, head to the gym, book a holiday, go to a party, have an argument with his partner, have sex and book a holiday. After all, as Socrates declared 'the unexamined life is not worth living'. In Breakfast with Socrates, subtitled A Philosophy of Everyday Life, former Oxford Fellow Robert Roland Smith takes various elements of a 'typical' day and provides insight into what an eclectic collection of thinkers might have to offer to make these mundane routines more interesting. Urn:oclc:424555440 Republisher_date 20161119113619 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 700 Scandate 20161118083730 Scanner : The thoughts of an eclectic range of philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and novelists applied to everyday tasks may make you examine how you think about things more closely.

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Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith