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  • Philosophy For Life

  • And Other Dangerous Situations
  • By: Jules Evans
  • Narrated by: John Voce
  • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Philosophy For Life

By: Jules Evans
Narrated by: John Voce
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Publisher's summary

This audiobook is an invitation to a dream school with a faculty that includes 12 of the greatest philosophers from the ancient world, sharing their lessons in happiness, resilience and much more. Discover how soldiers, psychologists, gangsters, astronauts, anarchists and others use these ideas today. Lively and powerful, this is philosophy for the street, for the workplace, for the battlefield, for love, for life.

©2012 Jules Evans (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing
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Critic reviews

"Instructive and thought-provoking...shows philosophy is not just for stuffy classrooms." (Financial Times)

"This wonderful book shows how modern psychology is consistent with the best that was thought and known in the Ancient World...also beautifully written." (Lord Richard Layard, author)

"An important book, because it reminds us philosophy is not just about analysis. It's also about the good life." (Matthew Syed, Times books of the year)

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