Robert Rowland Smith
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Robert Rowland Smith is a former Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a lecturer and writer on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis. In his book 'Breakfast with Socrates', Robert provides philosophical musings on the happenings of everyday life providing an hour-by-hour commentary on everything we do. From getting ready in the morning, through our day at work, to evening social activities and back to bed again, 'Breakfast with Socrates' tells us what history's greatest philosophers have said about the meaning behind everything we do.
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