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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Stoicism can help us defeat anxiety and paranoia.
Chapter 3: Thomas Aquinas sought to unite science and faith, and we can still learn from him today.
Chapter 4: Adam Smith reveals key ways to improve the capitalist economy today.
Chapter 5: Lao Tzu taught that life feels sweet when you follow nature's flow and make time to contemplate it.
Chapter 6: Through her anthropology, Margaret Mead taught us a lot about sexuality and gender.
Chapter 7: Sigmund Freud's ideas about pleasure and how childhood influences our lives are still very relevant indeed today.
Chapter 8: Jane Jacobs argued that for cities to be fun, they must be truly dense ecosystems indeed.
Chapter 9: Jane Austen reminds us that lovers should educate each other and that we must judge people carefully.
Description
Great Thinkers (2016) provides a handy guide to some of the most creative and ingenious people who have ever lived. These are thinkers who have changed the way we perceive and think about the world, and their wisdom continues to be highly relevant to people everywhere. By keeping these ideas close at hand and not far from our minds, the great thinkers of the past can continue to help us live better lives today.
Who Should Listen
- Culture vultures
- Wisdom seekers
- Students of the humanities