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Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House, Delhi |
| Author Mina Gouvatsou Karekou | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 127 | |
| Cover: PAPERBACK | |
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8.5x5.5 Inch |
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Weight 190 gm |
| Edition: 2025 | |
| ISBN: 9789359664859 | |
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HBU450 |
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The hero
of the book is a person of our times. This per-son may be anyone of us,
therefore no description of him is provided. He or she may be a man or a
woman', middle-aged, not too young, nor too old. This person wakes up every
morning, like we all do, and goes to work. He or she has a family, friends and
acquaintances, and lives in the society. He or she believes in the existence of
God without being religious. He has certainly received a good education and has
a constant thirst for knowledge. He reads anything he comes across and likes to
learn new things. What he is distinguished for is that he reads books of
esoteric philos ophu. He is concerned with his everyday needs and with the
needs of his own people, like we all do. He dedicates some of his time, though,
in order to think of other things too, things beyond the issues of everyday
life. He likes to philosophize, to discuss with other people what we call
existential issues. "Who am I? Where do I come from and where am 1 heading
to? Am I different from the others or similar to them? Why have I come into
this world? Is there any other world? Why is life structured the way it is on
Earth? Why are people's relationships so difficult?" Endless questions we
all have posed to our parents and teachers during our childhood and to
ourselves and to other people now that we are adults. The hero contemplates on
these questions and on oth-er similar ones and he notes down his thoughts,
sharing them with the reader of the book, the way we share our thoughts in
friendly conversations. His aim is not to con-vince anyone about anything, nor does
he believe in the faultlessness of his thoughts. He simply gives a spark for
thought, having the ambition to become the company, the interlocutor of the
reader in the various subjects ap-proached in the book. These subjects are
presented in an alphabetical order according to the Greek Alphabet as the
writer is Greek (even though the initial letters of the Eng-lish alphabet do
not follow this order; for this reason the Greek chapter title is written just
below the letter). They are certainly not the only ones to be discussed; they
are just a beginning. The hero's characteristic is that he always wants to see
the positive side of the events, not because he does not want to accept a
reality that is at times negative, but because he believes that the positive
approach towards events helps them to turn into positive ones or, at least, to
be less negative.
Seeking...
from Alpha to Omega "Who am I? Where do I come from and where am I heading
to? Am I different from the others or similar to them? Why have I come into
this world? Is there any other world? Why is life structured the way it is on
Earth? Why are people's relationships so difficult?" The hero contemplates
on these questions and on other similar ones, looking at the philosophical
quest through the lens of science. He shares his thoughts with the reader, the
way we share our thoughts in friendly conversations. His aim is not to convince
anyone about anything, nor does he believe in the faultlessness of his
thoughts. He simply gives a spark for thought, having the ambition to become
the company, the interlocutor of the reader in the various subjects approached in
the book. These subjects are presented in an alphabetical order according to
the Greek Alphabet. They are certainly not the only ones to be discussed; they
are just a beginning... MINA GOUVATSOU-KAREKOU WAS BORN AND RAISED IN ATHENS.
SHE STUDIED MATHEMATICS AT THESSALONIKI UNIVERSITY AND IS A HIGH-SCHOOL,
TEACHER, SHE IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN. SHE LIVES IN ATHENS.
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