The Art of Socrates

The Beautiful Wisdom of Asking the Right Questions.

von Martin Somerville

140 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

You are drowning in information, but starving for wisdom...Twenty-four centuries ago, a barefoot old man in a sunlit marketplace made it his life's work to help ordinary Athenians think for themselves. He wrote no books. He built no empire. He simply asked questions...Careful, patient, quietly precise questions that peeled back the borrowed certainties his fellow citizens had absorbed without ever examining, and returned them, slowly, to their own considered thinking. His name was Socrates. And his method is, honestly, one of the most useful things any human being has ever offered another.The Art of Socrates takes his teaching out of the ancient world and drops it gently into yours. Not as a scholarly commentary. As a warm, practical, human guide for the person who is tired of confident opinions, exhausted by algorithm-driven certainty, and quietly hungry for the ancient skill of thinking clearly again.Socrates asks nothing of your beliefs. He simply hands you back the right to say I do not know, and shows you what becomes possible once you do.Inside, you will discover: - Why "I know that I know nothing" is the ultimate superpower- How to wake up from autopilot and start living your actual life- The five Socratic questions that dissolve any stuck problem- How to stay unshaken when insulted, criticised, or provoked- Why the courage to stand alone matters more now than ever before-You do not need to become a philosopher. You do not need to learn Greek. You do not need to abandon what you already believe. You simply have to be willing to try, in small honest doses, the practices this book has been designed to help you begin.If you have been carrying more than you were built to carry, and are quietly ready for a way of thinking that will not lie to you, this is your invitation.Take the barefoot philosopher's patient questions, and let them show you the way home!

• ISBN: 9798193124559
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp