A breakout book completing a trilogy of Socratic exploration by the inimitable "Johnny Appleseed of philosophy."
Christopher Phillips goes to the heart of philosophy and Socratic discourse to discover what we're all looking for: the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. Love here is not defined only or even primarily as eros, but in all its classical varieties--from love of family and love of neighbor to love of country, love of God, love of life and love of wisdom. Phillips’s explorations take us from the gambling dens of Las Vegas to the last evangelical revival presided over by Billy Graham. He talks with South African blacks and whites coming together in the wake of apartheid, to Cubans and Cuban-Americans meeting for the first time at a family reunion in Havana, to Japanese seniors and schoolchildren in Hiroshima Peace Park. Throughout, he enriches his dialogues with commentary on the great philosophers of love from the ancients to Ortega y Gasset to Rumi to Tsunesaburo Makiguchi.
