Renewing the ancient tradition of Socrates, Marcus Aurelius and de Montaigne, Robert Nozick decided, in this brilliant and stimulating book, to ask himself all of the important questions with which one is faced in life. Avoiding overly technical language or extensive academic references, he questions the nature of happiness, death, creativity, faith, sexuality, wisdom, knowledge, good and evil, etc.A professor at Harvard University in the United States, Robert Nozick is the author of Anarchy, State and Utopia, for which he won the National Book Award and confirmed his status as one of the leading international theoreticians of contemporary political philosophy.