Socrates Meets Sartre: the Father of Philosophy Meets the Founder of Existentialism: a Socratic Cross-Examination of Existentialism and Human Emotions / Peter Kreeft

This book is one of a series of Socratic explorations of some of the Great Books. The books in this series are intended to be short, clear, and non-technical, thus fully understandable by beginners. Through such Socratic dialogues, Peter Kreeft introduces (or reviews) the basic questions in the fundamental divisions of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, ethics, logic, and method.

In Socrates Meets Sartre, Kreeft takes the reader through the world of existentialist philosophy, posing questions that challenge the concepts that Sartre proposed. Based on an imaginary dialogue between Socrates and Sartre that takes place in the afterlife, this profound and witty book makes an entertaining and informative exploration of modern philosophy.

“Peter Kreeft’s work is: (1) unfailingly brilliant, (2) intellectually agile, (3) astonishingly perspicacious, (4) gloriously orthodox, (5) Chestertonianly aphoristic.”
-Thomas Howard
Author, On Being Catholic

Dr. Peter Kreeft , a Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, is one of the most widely read Christian authors of our time. His many best-selling books include Back to Virtue, Love Is Stronger Than Death, Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing, Fundamentals of the Faith, and A Summa of the Summa.