Everyday Virtues: Socratic Provocations on How to Live a Life Worth Living

by Victor Sales Pinheiro

Drawing inspiration from Socrates, this book is an invitation to personal improvement. The author, a philosopher, views contemplation as a provocation to action, and invites his readers to self-examination and to practice virtues in everyday life.
Anchored in classical philosophical tradition, Everyday Virtues calls us, through practical exercises and straightforward language, to adopt a mature and responsible attitude towards life. Only through reflection on our daily actions and continual self-examination of our motivations can we avoid being governed by instincts and thus achieve a life worth living.
VICTOR SALES PINHEIRO holds a degree in Law, a PhD in Philosophy, and teaches at the Federal University of Pará and the Atlântico Academy. He organized the works of Brazilian philosopher and literary critic Benedito Nunes, a project for which he won the 2010 Jabuti Prize for Literary Criticism. He coordinates the bilingual editions project of Plato’s works (in Greek and Portuguese), and a collection on Natural Law Theory. In addition to Everyday Virtues, he has written five other books, all published in Brazil. He teaches his courses and classes on the platform www.dialetico.com.br and on Instagram (@prof.victorsalespinheiro)

319 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 18, 2024

About the author

Victor Sales Pinheiro é professor na Universidade Federal do Pará e no Centro Universitário do Pará; organizador da obra do filósofo Benedito Nunes (Prêmio Jabuti de Crítica Literária de 2010, pelo livro A Clave do Poético, ed. Companhia das Leras); coordenador da edição bilíngue de Platão, traduzida por Carlos Alberto Nunes (Ed. Ufpa), e da Coleção Teoria da Lei Natural (Ed. Lumen Juris). É também autor de Sol, linha e caverna – a dialética da imagem do bem na República de Platão, A dialética do amor – forma, argumento e legado do Banquete de Platão, Idea e Alethea – a confrontação de Heidegger com Platão e A Filosofia do Direito Natural de John Finnis, vol. 1 Conceitos Fundamentais.