The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb

The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb

The terrain of life is mountainous. Mountains have peaks and valleys, ups and downs, ascents and descents, highs and lows, much like daily living. We all face challenges that feel more like uphill battles, encountering difficult obstacles. The terrain of real faith is mountainous. We experience spiritual highpoints and emotional low points in our faith journey. It used to be common to refer to humans as souls. We need a few trusted souls to journey with us. The soul of a person is eternal, needing to be nourished and developed in this unpredictable terrain called life. Various pathways connect the outer life and the inner life: gardening, desert isolation, ocean travel, among others. The author chose to Retreat Upward: A Mountain Pathway for the Soul.

A delightIt is written with both wit and scholarship, providing a wonderful overall picture of Western philosophy up to the Renaissance. -- Sir Roger Penrose
[Gottlieb] writes with fluency and lucidity, with a gift for making even difficult matters seem comprehensible. -- Richard Jenkins * New York Times *
Gottlieb is as enjoyable as he is intellectually stimulating. -- Robert Conquest * Los Angeles Times *

Anthony Gottlieb is a former executive editor of the Economist and has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University and All Souls College, Oxford. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and The New York Times. He lives in New York.

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ISBN 13	9780141983844
ISBN 10	0141983841
Title	The Dream of Reason
Author	Anthony Gottlieb
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2016-08-30
Number of pages	512
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