The practicing stoic
By: by Ward Farnsworth
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781567926118
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Stoics
Other titles: Practicing stoic :
Description: At the school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium the teachers believed that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge and reason, and encouraged indifference to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain. Farnsworth integrates his own observations with scores of quotations to provide perspective of the various Stoic philosophers. His organization and commentary makes the meaning and relevance of this ancient philosophy clear for our times.
Table of contents: title: Judgment; title: Externals; title: Perspective; title: Death; title: Desire; title: Wealth and pleasure; title: What others think; title: Valuation; title: Emotion; title: Adversity; title: Virtue; title: Learning; title: Stoicism and its critics.