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Author : Diogenes
Release : 2008-06-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 412/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Summary of Stoic Philosophy by : Diogenes
Download or read book A Summary of Stoic Philosophy written by Diogenes. This book was released on 2008-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpted from Diogenes Laertius' The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, book seven.
Author : Keith Seddon
Release : 2008-02-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 404/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Summary of Stoic Philosophy by : Keith Seddon
Download or read book A Summary of Stoic Philosophy written by Keith Seddon. This book was released on 2008-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpted from Diogenes Laertius' The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers, book seven.
Author : Jonas Salzgeber
Release : 2019-01-28
Genre : Stoics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 905/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Little Book of Stoicism by : Jonas Salzgeber
Download or read book The Little Book of Stoicism written by Jonas Salzgeber. This book was released on 2019-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling, highly actionable guide shows you how to deal more effectively with whatever life throws at you and live up to your best self. A mix of timeless wisdom and empowering advice, The Little Book of Stoicism will point the way to anyone seeking a calm and wise life in a chaotic world.
Author : William B. Irvine
Release : 2008-11-04
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 623/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Good Life by : William B. Irvine
Download or read book A Guide to the Good Life written by William B. Irvine. This book was released on 2008-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to avoid the feelings of chronic dissatisfaction that plague so many of us. Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to put these techniques to work in our own life. As he does so, he describes his own experiences practicing Stoicism and offers valuable first-hand advice for anyone wishing to live better by following in the footsteps of these ancient philosophers. Readers learn how to minimize worry, how to let go of the past and focus our efforts on the things we can control, and how to deal with insults, grief, old age, and the distracting temptations of fame and fortune. We learn from Marcus Aurelius the importance of prizing only things of true value, and from Epictetus we learn how to be more content with what we have. Finally, A Guide to the Good Life shows readers how to become thoughtful observers of their own lives. If we watch ourselves as we go about our daily business and later reflect on what we saw, we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain in our life. By doing this, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a truly joyful life.
Author : Ryan Holiday
Release : 2020-09-29
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 87X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lives of the Stoics by : Ryan Holiday
Download or read book Lives of the Stoics written by Ryan Holiday. This book was released on 2020-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller! A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a "stellar work" by Publishers Weekly From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients can teach us about happiness, success, resilience and virtue. Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder; the philosophy and its embrace of self-mastery, virtue, and indifference to that which we cannot control is as urgent today as it was in the chaos of the Roman Empire. In Lives of the Stoics, Holiday and Hanselman present the fascinating lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known--and not so well-known--Stoics, this book vividly brings home what Stoicism was like for the people who loved it and lived it, dusting off powerful lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes. More than a mere history book, every example in these pages, from Epictetus to Marcus Aurelius--slaves to emperors--is designed to help the reader apply philosophy in their own lives. Holiday and Hanselman unveil the core values and ideas that unite figures from Seneca to Cato to Cicero across the centuries. Among them are the idea that self-rule is the greatest empire, that character is fate; how Stoics benefit from preparing not only for success, but failure; and learn to love, not merely accept, the hand they are dealt in life. A treasure of valuable insights and stories, this book can be visited again and again by any reader in search of inspiration from the past.
