Socrates: A Man for Our Times pdf

Paul Johnson trabaja como historiador, periodista y autor. Se educó en Stonyhurst School en Clitheroe, Lancashire y Magdalen College, Oxford, y saltó a la fama en la década de 1950 como periodista escribiendo y más tarde como editor de la revista New Statesman. También ha escrito para los principales periódicos y revistas de Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y Europa. Paul Johnson ha publicado más de 40 libros, incluidos A History of Christianity (1979), A History of the English People (1987), Intellectuals (1988), The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830 (1991), Modern Times: Una historia del mundo desde la década de 1920 hasta el año 2000 (1999), Una historia del pueblo estadounidense (2000), Una historia de los judíos (2001) y Arte: Una nueva historia (2003), así como biografías de Isabel I (1974), Napoleón (2002), George Washington (2005) y el Papa Juan Pablo II (1982).

Socrates: A Man for Our Times pdf por Paul Johnson

A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy. Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wrote nothing. Throughout his life, and indeed until his very last moment alive, Socrates fully embodied his philosophy in thought and deed. It is through the story of his life that we can fully grasp his powerful actions and ideas. In his highly acclaimed style, historian Paul Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the fifth century b.c., and how what this man thought still shapes the way we decide how to act, and how we fathom the notion of body and soul. Johnson provides a compelling picture of the city and people Socrates reciprocally delighted in, as well as many enlightening and intimate analyses of specific aspects of his personality. Enchantingly portraying "the sheer power of Socrates's mind, and its unique combination of steel, subtlety, and frivolity," Paul Johnson captures the vast and intriguing life of a man who did nothing less than supply the basic apparatus of the human mind.