Buddha, Socrates, and Us

A renowned Buddhist teacher turns to two of the most influential figures in history for guidance on how to face the ethical challenges of our time“[Batchelor] draws on a different tradition of doubt—Socratic questioning—and explores the wisdom that Buddhist and Hellenistic philosophy might offer us today.”—Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show The Buddha’s revolutionary teachings transformed Asia, and his contemporary Socrates laid the foundations of Western philosophy. Although they never met, Socrat