Eric Weiner combines his passion for philosophy with his love of world travel on a pilgrimage that will reveal amazing life lessons from the world's great thinkers - from Rousseau to Nietzsche, from Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train (a mode of travel ideal for contemplation), he travels thousands of kilometers, stopping in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt, to discover the original purpose of philosophy: to teach us to live wiser, more meaningful lives. . From Socrates and ancient Athens to Simone de Beauvoir and 20th-century Paris, the author's chosen philosophers and places become important reference points in today's chaotic world. In Philosophical Express, Weiner invites us on a journey of wisdom, in which we together try to find answers to our deepest questions. cherished questions.