“Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in fruitful debate. The lively narratives, based on the author's experiences of working with various groups interested in using philosophical tools to clarify their thought and action, will engage a wide range of readers.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantShowsProblemActionGroupsTeachingParticularReaderFindingsToolsPhilosophicalVariousWideDebateIdeologyNarrativeRangeTopicsPlatoPalestineLivelyThoughts And ActionsPhilosophical Thinking Author:Gary Gutting
“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.” ThinkingMenShouldHumansCharacterHandsAbleTogetherPoetryImaginationSituationPoetFoolReaderDemandPhilosophicalPhilosopherFinishedPermitCapabilitySageBeholderMental Power Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.” WorldStoriesLiteratureLevelsMoralEmotionalReaderEssencePhilosophical Author:Orhan Pamuk
“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.” BookReadingReaderPhilosophicalIgnorantLazyLazinessEverlasting Author:Marcus Aurelius
“It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.” TermDutyReaderPagesPhilosophicalPrimaries Author:Susan Howatch
“You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical a novel, you get into the dangers that the French novel has discovered in the past 50 or 60 years. And you get into a sort of aridity. No, you have to have real, identifiable people to whom the reader reacts in a way as if they were real people.” PeopleIfsWayYearsRealPastNovelDangerReaderPhilosophicalTheoreticalBelievable Author:Julian Barnes
“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.” IfsMindLooksHeartLostGrowsReaderSightPhilosophicalAbsenceLeapAdviseSagacityAbsence Makes The HeartAbsence Makes The Heart Grow FonderOf Sight Out Of Mind Author:Leo Rosten