The Quest for Character
What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us About Our Search for Good Leaders
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What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people?
Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed spectacularly. Alcibiades went on to beguile his city into a hopeless war with Syracuse, and all of Athens paid the price.
In The Quest for Character, philosophy professor Massimo Pigliucci tells this famous story and asks what we can learn from it. He blends ancient sources with modern interpretations to give a full picture of the philosophy and cultivation of character, virtue, and personal excellence—what the Greeks called arete. At heart, The Quest for Character isn’t simply about what makes a good leader. Drawing on Socrates as well as his followers among the Stoics, this book gives us lessons perhaps even more crucial: how we can each lead an excellent life.
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A brilliant philosopher reimagines Stoicism for our modern age in this thought-provoking guide to a better life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great stoic book by Massimo Pigliucci.
- De N.L. en 09-18-20
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Magic Medicine
- A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants and Substances
- De: Cody Johnson
- Narrado por: Steve Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Magic Medicine is an armchair traveler's guide to all substances psychedelic! Listeners will learn about their properties, use, lore, place in history, and their current research and applications as medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent summary of history and modern uses of psychedelics
- De Jill Anne en 12-22-24
De: Cody Johnson
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Nobody's Fool
- Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It
- De: Daniel Simons, Christopher Chabris
- Narrado por: Andrew Sellon
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody’s Fool, psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris show us how to avoid being taken in. They describe the key habits of thinking and reasoning that serve us well most of the time but make us vulnerable—like our tendency to accept what we see, stick to our commitments, and value precision and consistency.
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2 out of 5 stars
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limited information, read other books, political leaning hard left
- De Johanjohanhaha en 08-06-24
De: Daniel Simons, y otros
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Schopenhauer's Porcupines
- Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Five Stories of Psychotherapy
- De: Deborah Anna Luepnitz
- Narrado por: Deborah Anna Luepnitz
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines, she recounts five true stories from her practice, stories of patients who range from the super-rich to the destitute, who grapple with panic attacks, psychosomatic illness, marital despair, and sexual recklessness. Intimate, original, and triumphantly funny, Schopenhauer's Porcupines goes further than any other book in illuminating "how talking helps".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poignant listen
- De Robert B. Davis en 08-23-21
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The Gnostic New Testament and Jewels from Nag Hammadi
- De: Joseph Lumpkin
- Narrado por: Mel Jackson
- Duración: 25 h y 34 m
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Contained here is a compilation of the most powerful and sought after Gnostic texts available. Gnostic writings discovered in the areas of Nag Hammadi, Cairo, Oxyrynchus, and around the world have been placed in a single volume to allow the listener an appreciation of the theology and deep wisdom held in the Gnostic sect of the Christian faith. Included in this audiobook is information on various Gnostic thoughts and beliefs, which will help the listener better navigate a Christian theology vastly different from modern Christianity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!!!
- De Talon Vyler en 08-12-24
De: Joseph Lumpkin
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Weird
- The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
- De: Olga Khazan
- Narrado por: Renata Friedman
- Duración: 9 h
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Most of us have at some point in our lives felt like an outsider, sometimes considering ourselves "too weird" to fit in. Growing up as a Russian immigrant in West Texas, Olga Khazan always felt there was something different about her. This feeling has permeated her life, and as she embarked on a science writing career, she realized there were psychological connections between this feeling of being an outsider and both her struggles and successes later in life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Weird is An Appropriate Title
- De Mary T. Peters en 08-06-20
De: Olga Khazan
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- De: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 24 m
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Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and children’s drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stays on point
- De Alex en 04-29-23
De: Andrew Pettegree, y otros
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How to Live a Good Life
- A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
- De: Massimo Pigliucci - editor, Skye Cleary - editor, Daniel Kaufman - editor
- Narrado por: Massimo Pigliucci, Skye Cleary, Susan Denaker, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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This thought-provoking, wide-ranging collection brings together essays by 15 leading philosophers reflecting on what it means to live according to a philosophy of life. From Eastern philosophies (Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism) and classical Western philosophies (such as Aristotelianism and Stoicism), to the four major religions, as well as contemporary philosophies (such as existentialism and effective altruism), each contributor offers a lively, personal account of how they find meaning in the practice of their chosen philosophical tradition.
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2 out of 5 stars
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hit and miss
- De AH en 02-07-20
De: Massimo Pigliucci - editor, y otros
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The Characters of Creation
- The Men, Women, Creatures, and Serpent Present at the Beginning of the World
- De: Daniel Darling
- Narrado por: Tim Mullins
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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Most Christians are familiar with the opening words of Genesis: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” But push beyond those iconic words, and sometimes the details get a little hazy. And strange. God walked around in a garden? Eve was made from Adam’s rib? A talking serpent? And what the in the world were the “Nephilim”? In The Characters of Creation, Daniel Darling re-introduces listeners to the story they thought they knew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good summary of the Genesis
- De Roseclan en 04-20-25
De: Daniel Darling
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Dateable
- Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled
- De: Jessica Slice, Caroline Cupp
- Narrado por: Dana Swanson, Courtney Lin
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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Disabled authors Jessica Slice Caroline Cupp team up to address the serious gap in the dating space. Dateable is the first book on disabled dating and relationships; it’s a dating guide made especially for disabled and chronically ill people, that also calls in nondisabled listeners. Jessica and Caroline take on everything from rom-com representation and dating apps to sex and breakups with a strong narrative underpinning and down-to-earth advice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, informative, and validating!
- De Isabelle O en 10-18-24
De: Jessica Slice, y otros
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Hard Times Create Strong Men
- Why the World Craves Leadership and How You Can Step Up to Fill the Need
- De: Stefan Aarnio
- Narrado por: Stefan Aarnio
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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What does it mean to be a man in the modern world? Throughout history, being a man has meant different things. Maybe being a man was about being a good hunter, or a good soldier, a good businessman, or maybe good with women. Hard Times Create Strong Men examines what it means to be a man in the modern world relative to money, sex, religion, and politics. This audiobook examines what worked and what doesn’t work based on proven history instead of feelings.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The first half is pretty good, the second half...
- De Daniel Lee en 07-09-20
De: Stefan Aarnio
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The Genesis Machine
- Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
- De: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel
- Narrado por: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Synthetic biology promises to reveal how life is created and how it can be re-created, enabling scientists to rewrite the rules of our reality. It could help us, for example, heal without prescription medications, grow meat without harvesting animals, or confront our looming climate catastrophe. Synthetic biology will determine the ways in which we conceive future generations and how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking but politically biased
- De Andy en 07-02-22
De: Amy Webb, y otros
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Evolution Gone Wrong
- The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
- De: Alex Bezzerides
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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From blurry vision to crooked teeth, ACLs that tear at alarming rates and spines that seem to spend a lifetime falling apart, it's a curious thing that human beings have beaten the odds as a species. After all, we're the only survivors on our branch of the tree of life. Why is it that human mothers have such a life-endangering experience giving birth? And why are there entire medical specialties for teeth and feet? In this funny, wide-ranging and often surprising book, biologist Alex Bezzerides tells us just where we inherited our achy, brilliant bodies in the process of evolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Answers questions you haven't thought of yet!
- De Mike en 05-25-21
De: Alex Bezzerides
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- De: Martyn Rady
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 22 h y 56 m
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Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region, demonstrating that Central Europe has always been more than merely the fault line between West and East. Even as Central European powers warred with their neighbors, the region developed its own cohesive identity and produced tremendous accomplishments in politics, society, and culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Marred by the errors in the modern section
- De Paul Boothroyd en 10-20-23
De: Martyn Rady
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The Power of Awareness
- And Other Secrets from the World's Foremost Spies, Detectives, and Special Operators on How to Stay Safe and Save Your Life
- De: Dan Schilling
- Narrado por: Dan Schilling
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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In his empowering book, Dan Schilling shares how to identify and avoid threats using situational awareness and intuition just like the pros. Told with wit and wisdom, this compelling guide uses harrowing stories from Dan's special operations career and those of other experts to outline six easily implemented rules you can apply anywhere to improve your personal safety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good information but a miss on delivery possibly
- De HonestBuyer en 04-30-23
De: Dan Schilling
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- De: Harald Jähner
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How. Did It Happen?
- De Bettyb en 10-19-24
De: Harald Jähner
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Inner Mastery, Outer Impact
- How Your Five Core Energies Hold the Key to Success
- De: Hitendra Wadhwa PhD
- Narrado por: Hitendra Wadhwa PhD
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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It seems that our drives for Outer and Inner Success are destined to clash. But perhaps that’s only because we’ve been searching for success in the wrong places. Through extensive scientific research and masterful storytelling about exemplary figures and everyday heroes drawn from Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa’s class at Columbia Business School and client workshops at Mentora Institute—listeners arrive at timeless principles of success in life and leadership. Empowered by your Five Core Energies, you discover how to create outer impact from a place of inner mastery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A soulful passage
- De Steven Morris en 06-26-24
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Quest for Character
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- Roberto H. Castro
- 10-29-22
Thought Provoking
This book presents an age-old question and provides us thoughts from wise people on what it takes to develop and maintain a good character. The list provided at the end is superb. The sources cited are ones I will investigate in my journey.
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- Carlson Factory
- 02-19-23
Transformational Reading
This is a great foundational guild to the path of virtue and the building blocks of a good and worthy character.
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- Cameron
- 11-14-22
another great work by Massimo
only suggestion would be to include a PDF of the syllabus in last chapter with the audio book
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-07-23
The best stoic character text
Concise. Excellent reading. Will listen again and again, and recommend it to others. Thank you.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-13-24
Character and politics.
I found most interesting the sources used. Alcibiades, Laertius, Xenophon, Epictetus. Books that are not read in most philosophy programs! Of course , this oddity is expalined in the book. Excellent reading.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-24-25
Wear your mask boys
To bring the shots and wearing mask in to this book is as really bad taste
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- Kim A Jackson
- 10-14-22
Not as wonderful as his other books
Good information but not as charming or enlightening as his other works. A bit let down.
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- Stefan Vale
- 12-22-23
Disappointing
This book uses long winded ancient historical references, and warped current events (including debunked COVID “scamdemic” propaganda) to explain how character traits from Stoicism can be applied to live a more productive life. Next time, just stick to the philosophy and leave out the political bias and mass psychological manipulation.
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