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When Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living, he laid out the fundamental philosopher’s view. When he calmly accepted a death sentence in a cup of hemlock, he left a story of philosophy in action that’s been repeated and celebrated for eons.

For long, great ages, people looked to philosophers to ask how to live and what our priorities should be. And they looked not just to what philosophers said or wrote, but to how they lived and even died.

James Miller has gathered the teachings and life stories of a dozen philosopher greats- from the ancients to Kant, Emerson to Nietzsche, his book helps us look at what they taught, how they lived.