How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
A philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy that focuses our attention on what is possible and gives us perspective on what is unimportant. By understanding Stoicism, we can learn to answer crucial questions: Should we get married or divorced? How should we handle our money in a world nearly destroyed by a financial crisis? How can we survive great personal tragedy? Whoever we are, Stoicism has something for us--and How to Be a Stoic is the essential guide.
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This book does a great job of providing context to the works that are generally associated with the Stoic philosophy. It helps the reader put themselves in the mindset of the authors of books like senecas letters and Marcus Aurelius’s meditations. After proving context and it helps you put the lessons of these ancient texts into a modern day practical use and how to adapt these philosophical ideals too a modern day. The stoic philosophy can be a great tool to help with accepting what we can and cannot control and a great help with grief and many other issues of the modern human.
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