{"product_id":"the-socrates-code-peter-hubral-9781500465605","title":"The Socrates Code: Rediscovering the long lost Secrets of Ancient Philosophy with Tai Chi","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Hubral sets out a meticulously researched and convincing case that Western Philosophy is founded less upon the original Ancient Greek texts, as on a careless and ahistorical misreading of them, for which he provides an unprecedented rigorous revision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe shows that the original Greek terms \u003ci\u003eastronom a,  tomos, k smos, geometr a, id a, plan tes, pr xis, psych , mousik , symp sion, theor a, \u003c\/i\u003e and so on have \u003cb\u003enothing at all to do\u003c\/b\u003e with astronomy, atom, cosmos, geometry, and so on. The originals terms rather find their equivalents in the Chinese Taiji-practice that he follows since 1997 under the guidance of Dao-Grandmaster Fangfu.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe provides abundant evidence that this millennial practice equals the unwritten lost \u003cb\u003epractice of dying\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003emel te than tou\u003c\/i\u003e) about which Plato writes: \u003ci\u003eThose, who happen to grasp the philosoph a correctly, risk being unrecognised by others because it is nothing but 'practising to die and to be dead' \u003c\/i\u003e(Phaidon 64a). This practice - see the front cover - is based on the rigorous implementation of Wuwei, which the Greeks call \u003ci\u003ephil a \u003c\/i\u003ethat \u003ci\u003ephilosoph a \u003c\/i\u003erefers to, thus giving Greek wisdom (\u003ci\u003esoph a\u003c\/i\u003e) a completely new meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDue matching the Dao-practice to the \u003cb\u003epractice of dying, \u003c\/b\u003e Hubral completely dismantles the illusion that the western world has constructed about Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, etc. He shows that they made much more profound discoveries with the \u003cb\u003epractice of dying\u003c\/b\u003e about nature than what we are told about their contributions to mankind in uncountable commentaries \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Hubral\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1500465607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781500465605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.45d","brand":"Peter Hubral","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124228518143,"sku":"9781500465605","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d365fe7-706e-4ed0-a91e-8a432abc824b.jpg?v=1687435509","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-socrates-code-peter-hubral-9781500465605","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}