"As the Modern Stoicism movement has blossomed over the past decade, its practitioners and enthusiasts have struggled with some of the movement's stranger claims. Should we really be indifferent to death of a loved one, or to our own demise? Is it truly unacceptable to care about one's work?
Should we really look to nature for moral guidance? And what role does Providence have in ordering human affairs? In A Field Guide to a Happy Life, philosopher and Stoic Massimo Pigliucci has embarked on an ambitious task: offering his own view how the teachings of the Stoics can be adapted to modern mores and knowledge, taking as his inspiration the classic epitome of ancient Stoicism, Epictetus' Handbook.
This is not another translation of Epictetus' teachings. Epictetus's ancient Stoicism, with its emphasis on indifference, can seem to call for us to be soulless automatons. For him, all aspiration was vanity and all grieving wrong-headed.
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| ISBN: | 9781541646933 |
| Publication date: | 15th September 2020 |
| Author: | Massimo Pigliucci |
| Publisher: | Basic Books an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Genres: |
Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude Ethics and moral philosophy Philosophy |
"As the Modern Stoicism movement has blossomed over the past decade, its practitioners and enthusiasts have struggled with some of the movement's stranger claims. Should we really be indifferent to death of a loved one, or to our own demise?
A Field Guide to a Happy Life features in the following genres: Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy
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A Field Guide to a Happy Life was written by Massimo Pigliucci and published by Basic Books an imprint of Little, Brown
A Field Guide to a Happy Life has 160 pages