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Title: Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy by Christopher Phillips ISBN: 0-393-05157-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: this book rocks
Comment: I never thought I'd see the day that i'd read a book on philosophy, but this book won me over. When I was browsing in a bookstore the other day, it's cool cover caught my eye, then I dipped into it's pages...and I was hooked. If Christopher Phillips is what philosophy and philosophizing is all about, then I am forever smitten with this field I'd once taken great pains to keep at arms length, because of all the pretentious and even arrogant (and worthless) type of thinking I'd associated with this field before coming across Phillips. The coolest dialogue is one that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco with a bunch of kids, in a section called "Goodness for Goodness' Sake." Out of the mouths of babes comes great wisdom. Out of the book of Phillips comes great thinking and writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Poetically Socratic and Quintessentially Empathetic
Comment: This book is supremely Socratic, blending the imaginative-creative with the critical-rational in a way I've frankly never before seen accomplished by a book on philosophy that will be just as appealing to a general audience as it will be to scholars. Reading the put-down diatribe of Jerry S., I gain a much keener since of what author Christopher Phillips is up against in his noble attempts to combat intellectual snootiness and pretentiousness that only shows how incredibly ignorant and vacuous some peole who "claim to know" really are. I met Mr. Phillips at his promotion in Dallas, Texas, where he read the first section of his book, featuring a dialogue he held in the "agora," or plaza, of ancient Athens (land of Phillips' ancestors), where Socrates himself held court way back when. Phillips really makes you feel that you are there in the agora yourself. The entire book is so enticing, you can't help but immerse yourself in the rich dialogues, as well as engage in a dialogue with Phillips' own probing philosophical meditations that include the best in philosophical thinking from around the globe and across the ages. This book is a masterpiece, plain and simple, and anyone who takes the time to read it without bringing any "baggage" with them, will surely agree.
Rating: 1
Summary: Socratic? Not by a long shot.
Comment: The flyleaf says that "understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help [Socrates] become a more excellent [sic] human being."
Not mentioned is the need to have a diverse group in the discussion so that all viewpoints are heard and may be evaluated.
Phillips does not do this. The groups he gathers are largely those who can be fairly described as leftists or liberals in their political thinking. As a result, the entire book is a prolonged rant against the ubiquitous "them," the rich, the powerful, anyone who doesn't believe that what they have earned or owned is theirs alone.
All of the copious references are to others whose views are similarly skewed.
The Socratic method requires active debate to illuminate all viewpoints. This book provides a single, well worn "we're oppressed" view. It's a shame that Socrates has to suffer at the hands of this approach.
Jerry
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Title: Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips ISBN: 039332298X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Philosophers' Club by Christopher Phillips, Kim Doner ISBN: 1582460396 Publisher: Tricycle Pr Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Propaganda Techniques by Henry T. Conserva ISBN: 1410704963 Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Somebodies and Nobodies : Overcoming the Abuse of Rank by Robert W. Fuller ISBN: 086571486X Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life by Lou Marinoff ISBN: 1582342539 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 16 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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