false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg 200116 3 For Christopher Phillips, philosophy is a passion: it is not so much a discipline to be learned as an experience to be lived. Taking his cue from Socrates, the inaugurator of the Western philosophical tradition, Phillips embarks on a search for truth and meaning through a series of conversations that is at once refreshing, humorous, troubling, confusing, encouraging, depressing, and provocative. What makes Plato's Socratic dialogues so enduring--and Phillips's book so intriguing--is that for both Plato and Phillips, philosophy is not something you read or study. It is something you do. Plato wrote in <I>Parmenides</I> that "without wandering around and examining everything in detail one is unable to secure understanding." Phillips takes this approach--the Socratic approach--to heart. In the course of <I>Socrates Café</I>, he travels around asking questions of everyone who's interested. Just like the real Socrates, who did not confine himself to the Athenian ivory tower, Phillips searches out public conversations--what he calls Socrates cafés--with children, seniors, psychiatrists, prisoners, ex-academics, students, lawyers, and everyday people. In a sense, the book is a series of short, modern-day Socratic dialogues interspersed with meditations on the nature of philosophical inquiry. <p> Phillips seizes upon what the Greeks called "elenchus," a method of inquiry that helps people see their own beliefs and opinions more clearly. In the course of the numerous Socrates cafés highlighted in this book, Phillips persistently reminds us that we ought to ask questions simply because the process is good for us. In each of the cafés, the participants vary as widely as the questions, and the dialogues are by turns candid, insightful, muddled, intelligent, bland, and piquant. The real meaning of <I>Socrates Café</I> lies in the contentious and wonderful space of human interaction. <I>--Eric de Place</I> 193599 2001 Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy total:242|5:50|4:80|3:68|2:28|1:16| 242 846 368 41 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 0 2 false Tue Dec 30 11:58:18 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 01 07:52:38 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 30 11:58:18 -0800 2008 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 4 0 false Fri Nov 21 09:31:33 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 09:39:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 4 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 03 07:31:58 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 09 12:18:47 -0700 2008
I found this book to be inspiring to what we were already doing. It gave me some new ideas for discussio...more...]]> 2011051 0393049566 9780393049565 22 5 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191862873m/2011051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2011051.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 1 0 false Tue Sep 16 14:17:43 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 29 21:28:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Sep 24 19:28:21 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 19:37:53 -0700 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 3 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jul 25 21:05:25 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 21:05:36 -0700 2009 begun small groups across America
who meet to discuss ideas.
Must find out if there is a group
in Houston....

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A well written book, that I highly recommend.]]> 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 0 0 false Mon Jan 12 23:12:25 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 23:13:52 -0800 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 3 0 false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 19:08:20 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 15:18:37 -0800 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 5 0 false Mon Jul 06 17:21:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 17:23:10 -0700 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 3 0 false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 13:34:01 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 15:22:41 -0800 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 3 0 false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 14:13:03 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 14:42:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 5 0 false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Jan 03 11:57:37 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 11:58:53 -0800 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 1 0 false Tue Sep 16 14:14:22 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 30 16:35:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 19:53:54 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 19:54:41 -0800 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 1 0 false Tue Sep 16 14:13:54 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 02 16:47:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 4 0 false Sun Dec 14 05:39:01 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 05:39:38 -0800 2008 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 0 0 false Sat Nov 14 00:31:41 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 00:31:58 -0800 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 0 0 false Tue Oct 06 05:44:03 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 05:44:33 -0700 2009 200116 039332298X 9780393322989 216 36 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172628129m/200116.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200116.Socrates_Cafe_A_Fresh_Taste_of_Philosophy 5 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 13:10:06 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 10:11:16 -0700 2007 Now that I'm finished reading it, I'm not su...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=200116