Abstract

Here, as a guide to the perplexed, Gerber offers not a personal philosophy of life but rather what he calls "echoes of perennial wisdom." He has compiled many hundreds of reflections, and some arguments, from philosophers and poets, historians and playwrights, religionists and skeptics, drawn from several civilizations and three millennia of time. A primary aim, as he remarks at one point, is to help the reader in the ordering of his life "around high ideals and satisfying experiences."