Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

The thinkers who built the Western mind—and still shape your own.This is the best book on philosophy I have ever read. —Philip van Heusen for Readers' FavoriteThree men. Three rival visions of reality. And together, the hidden framework behind how you think about truth, morality, happiness, and meaning.Much of Western philosophy can be traced back to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—figures whose ideas continue to shape not only academic thought, but the assumptions behind everyday life: how we argue, judge, love, govern, and search for purpose.In The Gang of Three, psychiatrist and philosopher Dr Neel Burton explores this decisive moment in human thought, when reason began to challenge myth, and philosophy became a way of life rather than a search for stories.Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle did not agree on how to understand reality. Socrates pursued truth through relentless questioning. Plato turned toward transcendent ideals. Aristotle grounded knowledge in