Reviews
From the Cave's Shadows to the Logos of Living Well. Let me state the conclusion first: this book does not store Plato in a classical folder, but brings him into daily use as an instruction manual for life. Having demonstrated a feel for modern readings in his previous book, Nietzsche at Forty, the author firmly reconstructs Plato's formula for living through 24 keywords drawn from across Plato's complete works: questioning, awareness of ignorance, intellect, harmony of the soul, and practice.
A life-philosophy book that taught me the strength to live. ‘#PlatoLifeLessons’ A question about ‘What is the Logos of life?’ All the sages tell us to question ourselves. I wonder what questions ordinary people might ask. What if we looked back on our lives and made principles for my life from the questions presented in #PlatoLifeLessons? ‘How do I act?’ ‘How should I live?’ ‘How should I conduct myself?’ To live well and honorably, we must establish principles for life and follow them through
Plato's Life Lessons, written by Jang Jae-hyung, from Dasan Books. Life grows more prosperous and convenient, yet as we are constantly exposed to excessive competition and indiscriminate results-focused environments in the name of success and desire, we grow farther from the word happiness even while living in surroundings where nothing seems lacking. In the routine that turns like a hamster wheel, you may have suddenly wondered, 'Am I really living properly?' If you want a wise answer to this
Plato’s Life Lessons, a first humanities guide to understanding Plato, the ‘philosopher of philosophers.’ In the prologue to Jang Jae-hyeong’s new book, the author says, ‘We need a philosophy for the soul,’ and the very first passage says exactly this: We live in an age that excessively glorifies obsession with and desire for success. We desire more expensive cars and homes, higher-paying jobs, slimmer bodies, and more social media followers, treating wealth and social success as though they
‘When life speaks to me, what answer I give is entirely up to me. Let us bring forth the power of Logos to define life’s meaning. It will lessen the pain of emptiness and give us the courage to set out to find life’s one and only meaning. Let us believe in the restorative power of Logos as a tool for approaching happiness. There is something unchanging within us that cannot be defined.’ As I get older, the source of happiness is inner peace and stability, not material things. In youth, we live
A book that gave me a chance to reflect on life. Did Plato know? Is a life that pursues the Ideas the path to a happy life? It seems good to take this book out and read it whenever I feel shaken, to check the direction of my life.
Happiness does not come from far away. It is already asleep inside me. This is a philosophy book for people who still find life difficult. It is easy to think philosophy books are very difficult and written only in words we do not know, but Plato's Life Lessons explains things simply. It contains things worth thinking about at least once, so it is easy to read. Even at fifty, the age of knowing Heaven's mandate, there are times when life is still difficult and I want to seek wisdom; this seems
I feel the importance of questions. This book makes me think a lot. It was fun to read potentially difficult topics about people, death, and happiness, enriched with Greek mythology and stories of that era. It gave me time to realize the depth of Plato's dualism and Socrates' famous saying, 'Know yourself.' Finding the giant asleep inside me is most important. Everything is within me, an eternal, immortal truth! A truth that will not change as time passes.
Lately, when I visit bookstores, there seem to be two distinctive sections. The most popular is the self-improvement section. In this age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, people seem to seek many self-development books that can advise them on setting goals to develop themselves and ways to achieve them. The second is a section that seems to have boomed since last year, gathering philosophy books that adapt Schopenhauer’s or Nietzsche’s philosophy and thought to the meaning of life for
Plot: Plato thought the Ideas, the essences of things, existed in some other world beyond the real world. People and ideas related to Plato appear. It is not continuous but made up of segments. Impressions and thoughts: It is well organized. It explains the theories of various philosophers, not only Plato, in an easy-to-understand way. Human excellence is being human. Virtue is knowledge, and knowledge is virtue. It is fascinating that the thoughts and wisdom of people long ago still apply
Jang Jae-hyung: Plato's Life Lessons
A first humanities guide to understanding Plato, the ‘philosopher of philosophers’ who inspired countless philosophers over 2,000 years, including Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer, has been published. Jang Jae-hyeong, a humanities mentor of our time whose previous book, Reading Nietzsche at Forty, sparked a Nietzsche craze and won the love of 100,000 readers, now asks ‘How should we live?’ and seeks the answer in Plato’s philosophy. We live in an age that excessively glorifies obsession with and desire for success. We increasingly pursue desire rather than intellect, the body rather than the soul. In living outwardly, for others to see, we miss the private voice within ourselves. ‘Am I really living properly?’ Author Jang says that if this question, which no one else can answer for us, troubles you, you should encounter Plato’s philosophy. Through 24 aphorisms drawn from Plato’s classics, this book unfolds unchanging wisdom about life, including happiness (Eudaimonia), knowledge (Epistēmē), and virtue (Aretē). It is full of weighty, startling sayings: ‘Only those who recognize their ignorance care for themselves,’ ‘Nothing is more shameful than failing to care for myself,’ ‘The more we avoid life’s pain, the more helpless we become,’ ‘What matters is not living, but living well,’ and ‘Only those who can be alone can be happy.’ It offers moving wisdom for a better, more human life to readers wavering between exhausting reality and an ideal life.
Korean title: 플라톤의 인생 수업
Korean author: 장재형
Korean publisher: 다산초당
ISBN-13: 9791130651521
Reviews
From the Cave's Shadows to the Logos of Living Well. Let me state the conclusion first: this book does not store Plato in a classical folder, but brings him into daily use as an instruction manual for life. Having demonstrated a feel for modern readings in his previous book, Nietzsche at Forty, the author firmly reconstructs Plato's formula for living through 24 keywords drawn from across Plato's complete works: questioning, awareness of ignorance, intellect, harmony of the soul, and practice.
A life-philosophy book that taught me the strength to live. ‘#PlatoLifeLessons’ A question about ‘What is the Logos of life?’ All the sages tell us to question ourselves. I wonder what questions ordinary people might ask. What if we looked back on our lives and made principles for my life from the questions presented in #PlatoLifeLessons? ‘How do I act?’ ‘How should I live?’ ‘How should I conduct myself?’ To live well and honorably, we must establish principles for life and follow them through
Plato's Life Lessons, written by Jang Jae-hyung, from Dasan Books. Life grows more prosperous and convenient, yet as we are constantly exposed to excessive competition and indiscriminate results-focused environments in the name of success and desire, we grow farther from the word happiness even while living in surroundings where nothing seems lacking. In the routine that turns like a hamster wheel, you may have suddenly wondered, 'Am I really living properly?' If you want a wise answer to this
Plato’s Life Lessons, a first humanities guide to understanding Plato, the ‘philosopher of philosophers.’ In the prologue to Jang Jae-hyeong’s new book, the author says, ‘We need a philosophy for the soul,’ and the very first passage says exactly this: We live in an age that excessively glorifies obsession with and desire for success. We desire more expensive cars and homes, higher-paying jobs, slimmer bodies, and more social media followers, treating wealth and social success as though they
‘When life speaks to me, what answer I give is entirely up to me. Let us bring forth the power of Logos to define life’s meaning. It will lessen the pain of emptiness and give us the courage to set out to find life’s one and only meaning. Let us believe in the restorative power of Logos as a tool for approaching happiness. There is something unchanging within us that cannot be defined.’ As I get older, the source of happiness is inner peace and stability, not material things. In youth, we live
A book that gave me a chance to reflect on life. Did Plato know? Is a life that pursues the Ideas the path to a happy life? It seems good to take this book out and read it whenever I feel shaken, to check the direction of my life.
Happiness does not come from far away. It is already asleep inside me. This is a philosophy book for people who still find life difficult. It is easy to think philosophy books are very difficult and written only in words we do not know, but Plato's Life Lessons explains things simply. It contains things worth thinking about at least once, so it is easy to read. Even at fifty, the age of knowing Heaven's mandate, there are times when life is still difficult and I want to seek wisdom; this seems
I feel the importance of questions. This book makes me think a lot. It was fun to read potentially difficult topics about people, death, and happiness, enriched with Greek mythology and stories of that era. It gave me time to realize the depth of Plato's dualism and Socrates' famous saying, 'Know yourself.' Finding the giant asleep inside me is most important. Everything is within me, an eternal, immortal truth! A truth that will not change as time passes.
Lately, when I visit bookstores, there seem to be two distinctive sections. The most popular is the self-improvement section. In this age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, people seem to seek many self-development books that can advise them on setting goals to develop themselves and ways to achieve them. The second is a section that seems to have boomed since last year, gathering philosophy books that adapt Schopenhauer’s or Nietzsche’s philosophy and thought to the meaning of life for
Plot: Plato thought the Ideas, the essences of things, existed in some other world beyond the real world. People and ideas related to Plato appear. It is not continuous but made up of segments. Impressions and thoughts: It is well organized. It explains the theories of various philosophers, not only Plato, in an easy-to-understand way. Human excellence is being human. Virtue is knowledge, and knowledge is virtue. It is fascinating that the thoughts and wisdom of people long ago still apply
