A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00G6WCGKI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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By doing this, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a truly joyful life.. Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to put these techniques to work in our own life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. 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. 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 tha
Ms. Le Chat said A Gem. I've been helped immensely just by reading the first chapter. I embrace the focus on living the Stoic philosophy, learning techniques to banish negative emotions and the distractions surrounding us in a consumer society which take me off the path to deciding what my "grand goal in living" . avgvstvs said A Commendable Effort. I happen to be one of those "predisposed stoics" that Irvine describes in this book, and indeed have myself had an "on again, off again" relationship with Zen Buddhism. (Though I disagree with Irvine that it requires a "leap of faith.")This book is exactly what it says it is: a man's reviv. Fantastic- viewpoint altering book M. Brown I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It has literally made my life better.After giving the reader a brief review of the history of Stoic philosophy, including a summary of all of it's major thinkers and proponents/practitioners, the author then gives the reader practical exercises t