Socrates in Sichuan

Author: Peter J. Vernezze
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B005G7GTOS

Socrates in Sichuan: Chinese Students Search for Truth, Justice, and the (Chinese) Way

When Peter J. Download Socrates in Sichuan: Chinese Students Search for Truth, Justice, and the (Chinese) Way from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Vernezze took a leave of absence from his position as a philosophy professor to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in China, he supplemented his main task-teaching English-with leading a weekly philosophical discussion group with Chinese undergraduate and graduate students at Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu. In each session the students debated topics as diverse as the status of truth, the meaning of life, the reality of fate, the definition of sanity, the necessity of religion, and the value of romantic love. Each of the twenty-five chapters focuses on the topic of one evening's discussion, which was always in the form of a question: How are ancient conceptions of virtue holding up in a society overrun by capitalism? Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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Socrates in Sichuan education books for free. Vernezze took a leave of absence from his position as a philosophy professor to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in China, he supplemented his main task-teaching English-with leading a weekly philosophical discussion group with Chinese undergraduate and graduate students at Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu Each of the twenty-five chapters focuses on the topic of one evening's discussion, which was always in the form of a question: How are ancient conceptions of virtue holding up in a society overrun by capitalism?

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