Socrates: A Man for Our Times pdf

Пол Джонсон работает историком, журналистом и писателем. Он получил образование в школе Стоунихерст в Клитеро, Ланкашир, и в колледже Магдалины в Оксфорде. Впервые он стал известен в 1950-х годах как журналист, писавший для журнала New Statesman, а затем редактировавший его. Он также писал для ведущих газет и журналов Великобритании, США и Европы. Пол Джонсон опубликовал более 40 книг, в том числе «Историю христианства» (1979), «Историю английского народа» (1987), «Интеллектуалы» (1988), «Рождение современности: мировое общество», 1815–1830 (1991), «Новое время»: История мира с 1920-х по 2000 год (1999), История американского народа (2000), История евреев (2001) и Искусство: Новая история (2003), а также биографии Елизаветы I. (1974), Наполеон (2002), Джордж Вашингтон (2005) и Папа Иоанн Павел II (1982).

Socrates: A Man for Our Times pdf Пол Джонсон

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.