Socrates: A Man for Our Times pdf

Paul Johnson lavora come storico, giornalista e autore. Ha studiato alla Stonyhurst School di Clitheroe, nel Lancashire e al Magdalen College di Oxford, ed è diventato famoso negli anni '50 come giornalista scrivendo per la rivista New Statesman e in seguito modificandola. Ha anche scritto per i principali giornali e riviste in Gran Bretagna, Stati Uniti ed Europa. Paul Johnson ha pubblicato oltre 40 libri tra cui 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 storia del mondo dagli anni '20 all'anno 2000 (1999), Una storia del popolo americano (2000), Una storia degli ebrei (2001) e Arte: una nuova storia (2003), nonché le biografie di Elisabetta I (1974), Napoleone (2002), George Washington (2005) e Papa Giovanni Paolo II (1982).

Socrates: A Man for Our Times pdf da 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.