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    The Best Things in Life: A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth the Good Life

    By Peter Kreeft

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    What are the best things in life? Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and spirit-stretching challenge that disrupted ancient Athens.

    • What is the purpose of education?
    • Why do we make love?
    • What good is money?
    • Can computers think like people?
    • Is there a difference between Capitalism and Communism?
    • What is the greatest good?
    • Is belief in God like belief in Santa Claus?

    In twelve short, Socratic dialogues Peter Kreeft explodes contemporary values like success, power and pleasure. And he bursts the modern bubbles of agnosticism and subjectivism. He leaves you richer, wiser and more able to discern what the best things in life actually are.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInterVarsity Press
    Release dateAug 20, 2009
    ISBN9780830874521
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    Peter Kreeft

    Peter Kreeft (PhD, Fordham University) is professor of philosophy at Boston College where he has taught since 1965. A popular lecturer, he has also taught at many other colleges, seminaries and educational institutions in the eastern United States. Kreeft has written more than fifty books, including The Best Things in Life, The Journey, How to Win the Culture War, and Handbook of Christian Apologetics (with Ronald Tacelli).

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