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Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith

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Jan 08, 11

bookshelves: philosophy
Read from December 22, 2010 to January 09, 2011

What a great idea for a book, but what a disappointment to read. I mean I liked it well enough, but I was expecting something quite different, something a bit more philosophical. It makes me want to start writing my own version the way it should be done. For one thing, these chapters, such as "Going to the Gym" and "Taking a Bath" and "Having Lunch With Your Parents" are just a bit too yuppyish for me. And there are only touches of famous philosophers in each chapter. It would have been better to just give some philosophical ideas from say the Greek philosophers to think about over the course of a day, no matter what you are doing. One edition could have been on Greek philosophy, another on existentialism, and so on. I think I'll start writing it.

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