Daniel Olivieri
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The Socratic Method
- A Practitioner’s Handbook
- De: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 456
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 401
About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the reasons why, amount to a whole way of thinking. This is the Socratic method - one of humanity’s great achievements. More than a technique, the method is an ethic of patience, inquiry, humility, and doubt. It is an aid to better thinking, and a remedy for bad habits of mind, whether in law, politics, the classroom, or tackling life’s big questions at the kitchen table.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needs a new version
- De Robin Hampton en 11-01-21
- The Socratic Method
- A Practitioner’s Handbook
- De: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrado por: John Lescault
How Much Would You Pay For A Better Self?
Revisado: 10-15-21
Early in the book, Farnsworth compares the Socratic Method to glasses. Glasses help us see more clearly; the Socratic method helps us think more clearly. I found this apt. Two chapters near the end of the book did far and away the most to prescribe me the better glasses I'd been looking for. These were the chapters when Farnsworth gets into the nitty gritty details of how to ask questions that move an investigation forwards (often by looking for definitions, locating fundamental principles, and bringing up counter examples).
I've often found that the right question can do more to persuade someone than any number of arguments. Farnsworth seems to agree. He describes it as standing next to your interlocutor and investigating claims together rather than assuming a combative position. Two allies looking for the answer to a hard question will generally get much further than two opponents trying to show why the other is wrong.
A main strength of the book is Socrates himself. He is the question personified. He keeps things interesting. He's always up to something, whether it's questioning nobles on what the definition of courage is, getting sentenced to death, or drinking his hemlock without so much as a complaint about the taste. He's a boon to philosophy in general and this book in particular.
Farnsworth makes the social goal of his book clear. No one needs me to say that most public discourse seems to lack the Socratic values of respectful (if lively) questioning and searching for truth over winning arguments. I'll admit that I'm not optimistic about society's chances of adopting these values. However, I'm more optimistic about the readers of this book walking away with some invaluable tools for how to conduct important conversations both in the world and in their minds.
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Underground
- A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
- De: Will Hunt
- Narrado por: Will Hunt
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 165
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities - an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting unearthing of some awesome spaces
- De Garry en 02-23-19
- Underground
- A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
- De: Will Hunt
- Narrado por: Will Hunt
So Good That I Teared Up at the Last Line
Revisado: 07-25-21
This book satisfied my expectations and then went way beyond them. It starts with science and cool facts and then goes, well, deeper. I cannot recommend this book enough. The last sentence was so moving I noticed tears in my eyes.
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Leaving the Atocha Station
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Ben Lerner
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 275
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 237
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 235
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful, beautiful
- De Rochelle en 12-09-14
- Leaving the Atocha Station
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Ben Lerner
Hate the Narrator, Love the Novel
Revisado: 11-06-18
At various points the narrator of this book—an immature and just plain annoying young poet squandering his year on a Fullbright in Madrid—considers killing himself by taking all his medications at once. I found myself hoping he wouldn’t kill himself not because I had any sympathy or care for him but because if he died then the novel would be over and I wouldn’t be able to hear any more of his clever/interesting/vaguely profound insights. Good book once you get past hating the narrator.
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