Walking with Socrates (Great Thinkers and Everyday Life)

Author: [German] Quentin Meillassoux, translated by Ren Guoqiang
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Features: This book is an academic collage, interspersed with anecdotes about philosophers' lives, wise sayings, and miscellaneous notes on their philosophical systems. In a sense, it lends the book the nature of collecting antiques and treasures.
Content: Walking is beneficial for thinking, a notion almost as old as European philosophy. A poor mind requires more walking. To elevate thought from the legs to the head, many philosophers have been obsessed and relentless walkers, a practice as early as ancient Greece. Thales, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, was a walking enthusiast, willing to stumble into a well while walking. It is precisely for this reason that his various intellectual achievements were remarkable and had a profound influence. Thales lived in the 7th century BC in Miletus, a small city located in the southern part of Samos Island, along the Ionian coast of Asia Minor.