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What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socrates's footsteps, Christopher Phillips—"Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree" (Utne Reader)—investigates these same questions, beginning in the marketplace of modern-day Athens. He goes on to investigate the timely responses and outlooks of people from different cultures and backgrounds around the world: from Greece and Spain to Japan and Korea, Mexico City, and Chiapas, where the region's indigenous people struggle for fundamental human rights. Phillips also traveled throughout the United States, holding dialogues in diverse communities from New York City to the Navajo Nation. Introducing us to less familiar thinkers in non-Western traditions who were kindred spirits of Socrates, Phillips enlarges our perspectives on life's fundamental questions, creating an innovative world survey of philosophy.

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In his first book, Socrates Cafe, Phillips charmingly recounted how he roamed the country starting philosophical discussion groups inspired by the Socratic method of questioning. Here, Phillips ventures to many lands, including Greece, Japan, South Korea and Mexico, and stages dialogues with people from many backgrounds: Navajo, Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, Catholic. He discusses six questions, each in a separate chapter: What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is good? What is courage? What is piety? His hope is to "discover an array of timely answers" that may help us achieve "human excellence." The author's own ruminations, and an eclectic selection of published ideas from Tom Sawyer to Thich Nhat Hanh, supplement the 20 or so dialogues. In a final chapter, Phillips argues that the Socratic "pursuit of the virtuous life" may provide a way of countering the "downward [moral] spiral" he sees prevailing in today's world. Phillips's idealism remains refreshing, and the book is valuable for its inclusion of non-European points of view. But as in Socrates Caf , the philosophy often feels superficial. For example, a discussion in Mexico of "What is justice?" turns into a catalogue of government injustices with nothing more to say philosophically than, "We have to make sure that justice serves all of us in an impartial way." Such insights are obviously not without value, especially for those new to philosophizing, but they make this very much a book for beginners. Author tour. (Jan.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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Phillips (Socrates Cafe) pursues philosophy according to the Socratic model, the antithesis of the modern academic: he travels around the world, organizing group discussions in which participants of all ages, education levels, and walks of life lead and follow one another in the pursuit of clarified thinking. The six leading questions he presents to such participative audiences-and here to readers-are literally thousands of years old: what are virtue, moderation, justice, the good, courage, and piety, and is excellence yet possible? As Phillips argues, "By looking at how these questions are conducive to examining particular issues in specific places and times, we can see how universal patterns emerge." And so we readers listen in on discussions held in Athens, Tokyo, Seoul, and Montclair, NJ, among other places. Phillips has transformed the actual records of these discussions to preserve participant anonymity, and so they seem to share qualities with Plato's dialogs, being both realistic and somewhat fictionalized. Educated readers will want to discuss the ideas in this book, which is precisely the author's intent. Those new to philosophical thinking will find it an admirable introduction.-Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., CA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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ISBN-13: 9780393326796
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 4/17/2005
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 212,673
Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 7.80 (h) x 0.80 (d)

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Christopher Phillips

Christopher Phillips is the author of Socrates Café, Six Questions of Socrates, Socrates in Love, and Constitution Café. He teaches at New York University and lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.

	What Is Virtue?	9
	What Is Moderation?	57
	What Is Justice?	99
	What Is Good?	161
	What Is Courage?	205
	What Is Piety?	241
	Is Excellence Still Possible?	285
	Acknowledgments	305
	Further Reading	309
	Index	313

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