What we’re about
The goal to better understand how to live a good life through a book discussion group.
The questions
- What is a “good life”?
- How do others advocate for finding happiness, contentment and serenity?
- Practically, how should one best manage career, family, friendships, community?
- What can one learn from others about managing one’s life in their 40s, 50s and 60s?
- What are different concepts of the meaning of life?
- How does one age vibrantly and gracefully?
List of past readings here.
Paul Baier is the group organizer at paul.baier (at) gmail.com
Upcoming events (2)
See all- #84: Plato's Crito & Philosophy: A Very Short IntroductionPanera Bread, Waltham, MA
For January, we are reading chapters 1 and 2 of Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig. Chapter 2 uses Plato's dialogue Crito as an example, so we are also reading it. Crito isn't long at all.
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction is available in many libraries and bookstores and is easy to purchase online.
Here are some translations of Crito; you can choose the one you like for the language or a different one that you have.
- From The Dialogues of Plato in Four Volumes (1902), translated by B. A. Jowett
- From Five Dialogues (1981), translated by G. M. A. Grube
- From The Last Days of Socrates (1954), translated by Hugh Tredennick
