For For students and young adults asking what makes life worth living; not for readers wanting a technical introduction to ethics.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
4 of 5strongly recommended
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
1 of 5light
Socrates questions modern students about success, power, pleasure and the good life.
How it proceeds
Philosophic4 of 5
Scriptural1 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical0 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Subtitled A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth and the Good Life and published by InterVarsity Press in 1984, this book brings Socrates to a modern university, where he questions students about what they value: success, power, pleasure, truth and happiness. Through the dialogues it examines what makes a life good. It is an early example of the Socratic method Kreeft later used across many books.
