Time of the Sages
Socrates, Confucius, the Buddha and the Ideas that Shaped Our World
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2027
Summary
2,400 years ago there was a sudden and dramatic burst of new ideas across the world.
Simultaneously in Athens, Socrates was prompting his contemporaries to question their assumptions; in India, the Buddha was grappling with the boundary between the self and the world; and in China, Confucius was formulating a philosophy based on collective harmony. For all their differences, each was pioneering a provocative new way of thinking about ethics and politics, a shift from asking what the g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911742234 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 191174223X |
| Author: | A.C. Grayling |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Torva |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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A.C. Grayling
Professor A. C. Grayling
Founder and principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London. Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Author of over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects. Formerly wrote columns for The Guardian and The Times. Chaired the judging panel for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
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