A Map to the End of Time

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TALES BOTH PLAYFUL AND PROFOUND EXPLORING ANSWERS TO LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS.
^ / eaching philosophy to retired people should Cy be a path to wisdom, Ron Manheimer thought. He was right, but in unexpected fashion. His lively Socratic "dialogues" with older people led him into hilarious and provocative conversa-tions with a colorful cast of fellow seekers: from his bon vivant Danish mentor Augie Nielsen to his strong-willed elderly student Hildegard, from his ironic teenaged daughter Esther to his wisecrack-ing Uncle Joe, a master of the Jewish joke.
Like James Carse in Breakfast at the Victory, Manheimer reinvigorates the ancient tradition of using storytelling to explore truth. What is roman-tic love? How do we shape the stories we teli our-selves about our own pasts? Does the purpose of life become clearer in old age? How do we find common meanings across religious, ethnic, and generational divides? What is the essence of a per-son? What does it mean to live a "full" life?... Tovább

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TALES BOTH PLAYFUL AND PROFOUND EXPLORING ANSWERS TO LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS.
^ / eaching philosophy to retired people should Cy be a path to wisdom, Ron Manheimer thought. He was right, but in unexpected fashion. His lively Socratic "dialogues" with older people led him into hilarious and provocative conversa-tions with a colorful cast of fellow seekers: from his bon vivant Danish mentor Augie Nielsen to his strong-willed elderly student Hildegard, from his ironic teenaged daughter Esther to his wisecrack-ing Uncle Joe, a master of the Jewish joke.
Like James Carse in Breakfast at the Victory, Manheimer reinvigorates the ancient tradition of using storytelling to explore truth. What is roman-tic love? How do we shape the stories we teli our-selves about our own pasts? Does the purpose of life become clearer in old age? How do we find common meanings across religious, ethnic, and generational divides? What is the essence of a per-son? What does it mean to live a "full" life?
Showing how ideas and lives can illuminate one another, Manheimer's engaging narratives address these questions while providing an invit-ing exploration of the ideas of thinkers from Plató and Aristotle to Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Martin Buber. A great teacher, Manheimer shows how these philosophers might provide the footgear for treading everyday paths of humán experience, on our inevitable journeys to "the end of time." Vissza