By Christopher Phillips
"A bracing, rollicking examine the spark that ignites while humans begin asking significant questions."―O Magazine
Christopher Phillips is a guy on a venture: to restore the affection of questions that Socrates encouraged in the past in old Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's measure, Phillips has gallivanted backward and forward throughout the US, to cafés and low outlets, senior facilities, assisted-living complexes, prisons, libraries, day-care facilities, uncomplicated and excessive colleges, and church buildings, forming lasting groups of inquiry" (Utne Reader). Phillips not just provides the basics of philosophical inspiration during this "charming, Philosophy for Dummies-type consultant" (USA Today); he additionally remembers what led him to begin his itinerant software and re-creates one of the most invigorating periods, which come to bare occasionally outstanding, usually profound reflections at the which means of affection, friendship, paintings, getting old, and others between Life's enormous Questions. "How to begin your individual Socrates Café" consultant incorporated.
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