The Deepest Human Life The Deepest Human Life

The Deepest Human Life

An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone

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Publisher Description

This accessible and thought-provoking introduction to philosophy shows how the eternal questions can shed light on our lives and struggles.

These days, we generally leave philosophical matters to professional philosophers. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life, he restores philosophy to its proper place at the center of our humanity, rediscovering it as our most profound effort toward understanding, as a way of life that anyone can live. Exploring the works of some of history’s most important thinkers in the context of the everyday struggles of his students, Samuelson guides readers through the most vexing quandaries of existence—and shows just how enriching the examined life can be.

Samuelson begins at the beginning: with Socrates, and the method he developed for approaching our greatest mysteries. From there he embarks on a journey through the history of philosophy, demonstrating how it is encoded in our own personal quests for meaning. Through heartbreaking stories, humanizing biographies, accessible theory, and evocative interludes like “On Wine and Bicycles” or “On Zombies and Superheroes,” Samuelson invests philosophy with the personal and vice versa. The result is a book that is at once a primer and a reassurance—that the most important questions endure, coming to life in each of us.

Winner of the 2015 Hiett Prize in the Humanities

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2014
3 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
231
Pages
PUBLISHER
The University of Chicago Press
SIZE
1.5
MB
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