{"product_id":"the-socrates-code-rediscovering-the-long-lost-secrets-of-ancient-philosophy-with-tai-chi-paperback","title":"The Socrates Code: Rediscovering the long lost Secrets of Ancient Philosophy with Tai Chi - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Hubral\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Peter Hubral is a retired full professor of Applied Geophysics with many scientific publications and a life-long interest in Greek and Eastern philosophy. He published four books in Lotus Press and one in Longtai Verlag, in which he systematically destructs in a really scandalizing and most disturbing way \u003cb\u003eall that is known about the Greek Philosophers\u003c\/b\u003e. He argues convincingly that they taught their students the same profound wisdom as his teacher, Dao-Grandmaster Fangfu, who considers himself in an uninterrupted genealogy of Dao-masters that includes Laozi (Lao Tzu).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42168115495047,"sku":"9781500465605","price":20.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6435aac321a301267139e93f8fd4bba8.webp?v=1733333108","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-socrates-code-rediscovering-the-long-lost-secrets-of-ancient-philosophy-with-tai-chi-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}