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. 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.
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"Kreeft has succeeded admirably in his revival of Socrates. . . . Kreeft's Socrates [is] recognizably the gadfly moralist, irreverent and reverent about just the right things." (The Reformed Journal)
"Any reader sitting down to persue these dialogues . . . [will] find himself roused, amused, entertained and instructed. Peter Kreeft does what all great teachers do: he returns us, again and again and again, to what T. S. Eliot called 'the permanent things.' " (Thomas Howard)
"Any reader sitting down to persue these dialogues . . . [will] find himself roused, amused, entertained and instructed. Peter Kreeft does what all great teachers do: he returns us, again and again and again, to what T. S. Eliot called 'the permanent things.' " (Thomas Howard)
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---"Beauty" -- The branch of philosophy dealing with aesthetics.
---"C. S. Lewis and Mere Christianity" -- C.S. Lewis' masterpiece
---"Christianity in Lord of the Rings" -- The cleverly disguised role of God
---"Culture War" -- A call to arms, mapping key enemies and battlefields
---"Existence of God" -- A magnificent overview of the arguments
---"Good, True, Beautiful" -- C.S. Lewis on three great transcendentals
---"Happiness" -- How do you get it? Christ's version vs. the world's
---"Heaven" -- The heart's deepest longing
---"Hollywood Screenwriting" -- Encouragement to film's creative storytellers
---"If Einstein Had Been a Surfer" -- Rediscovering intuitive thinking
---"Lord, Liar, or Lunatic" -- The famous argument for Christ's identity
---"Problem of Pain" -- C.S. Lewis's brilliant exposition on suffering and evil
---"Sex in Heaven" -- Imaging the fire of God's love
---"Sexual Reconnection" -- Healing the link between sex & love
---"Shocking Beauty" -- The live character of Christ
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
By Chu H. Choi
Format:Paperback
I read this book while taking a Socratic Dialogue Class with Dr. Kreeft at Boston College. "The Best Things in Life" is one of my favorite Kreeft books. It is a real page-turner, and poses simple yet perplexing philosophy throughout the dialogue. Kreeft's humor is a little corny, but his presentation of questions and conclusions are winning and convincing.
Highly recommended for young readers.
31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book because I teach logic and public policy debate to high school home schoolers. Peter Kreeft harpoons sacred cows, political correctness, philosophy and lazy thinking with humor and razor sharp logic. What a delight! Like all of Kreeft's work, this is not a quick read, but a trememndously valuable one. I'll be introduing this book during second semester. I am buying it for a high school student for Christmas, as well as a personal shelf copy.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
By David Graham
Format:Paperback
What would happen if Socrates returned to the present, showing up on a college campus over 2,000 years later? What sorts of things would interest him and what would he think about the modern world? With fine imagination, Peter Kreeft explores these questions in a book that discusses issues pertinent to the modern reader's life. Entertaining and instructive, this book is good for stimulating ethical and moral reflection.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not his best book
I really enjoy Professor Kreeft's books, especially those on the meaning of life and suffering. The style of this book made it a little less captivating, but the philosophy is... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dave
3.0 out of 5 stars
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I thought the book was good but not what I expected in the best things in life. It makes me feel like I have more questions than answers. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Yadira
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book
Kreeft is masterful in this piece, as well as a similar work "The Unaborted Socrates". Finally, a Christian is regaining the field of philosophy! Read more
Published on January 17, 2011 by Tylan Schrock
4.0 out of 5 stars
What are the best things in life?
Kreeft makes philosophy accessible to those without a university education. His "Refutation of Moral Relativism" and "Socrates Meets Jesus" are both written in a similar style: a... Read more
Published on January 6, 2008 by Barbara L. Lemaster
4.0 out of 5 stars
A book for the heart as well as the mind
When I taught 7th grade History, Literature and Theology, we used this book as a warm-up for critical thinking. Read more
Published on January 5, 2008 by Drew Ross
5.0 out of 5 stars
Socrates in the university quad
In this book Peter Kreeft uses a line from some of his previous books, having Socrates interact with modern characters. Read more
Published on December 30, 2006 by CDS
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Resource!
Peter Kreeft is known for writing in the dialectic style. Though Kreeft is famous for using this style, he does not pull it off in this book as well as he does in some of his other... Read more
Published on August 30, 2006 by Steven R. McEvoy
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but not Kreeft's best
As an aside, let me just say that reading the book recalled fond memories of my college and graduate school years, and even reminded me of some people I knew. Read more
Published on May 26, 2005 by Corum Seth Smith
2.0 out of 5 stars
A weak apologia for the author's personal tastes
Set aside the moment the presumption of a Christian author taking the voice of Socrates. (It seems clever to a Christian, but having been deeply religious and left it behind, it... Read more
Published on April 8, 2004 by Brian Connors
4.0 out of 5 stars
Engage your mind
Once again, Kreeft is able to imitate Socrates voice, and show us what the sage might have said had he been in contemporary society. Read more
Published on March 25, 2004 by Kendal B. Hunter
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