Manual de filosofía portátil

Why a manual? Because it aspires to be easy to handle and easy to understand and its intention is fundamentally practical. Because it is not an official, academic or doctrinal book, and it summarizes the most substantial of a few philosophical lives. Why laptop? Because it is a tribute to walkers. Portable philosophy is an effort to liberate thought from the seclusion to which it has been subjected by scholastics and scholars. A way to conjure up that erudite mania of speaking only for those who share a chair or faculty. The spirit of heaviness infects like no other that of philosophy, and the laptop is a ballast dropper. He prefers to offer ironies, crumbs and glimpses that open the way to a new understanding of life. This book proposes to cross the river of philosophy against the current, in search of its sources. The journey begins with the gesture of an anthropologist who, after studying philosophy in Paris, goes to seek the truth among the 'savages'. Then, we visit the philosophers, contemplating unforgettable scenes: Wittgenstein takes notes in a trench, Nietzsche whispers to a horse, Kierkegaard finances an anticlerical pamphlet, Leibniz discovers love between princesses, Montaigne locks himself in, Plotinus hides his past, Socrates drinks willingly. a poison and Empedocles throws himself into a volcano. What at first glance might seem strange took on a profound meaning for all of them. Let's call that sense philosophy and see what happened.