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The daily stoic: 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance and the art of living.

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dc.contributor.author Holiday, Ryan
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-02T23:54:22Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-02T23:54:22Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Classification: LCC B528 .H65 2016 | DDC 188—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016030358 en_US
dc.identifier.isbn LCCN 2016030358; 9780735211742 (e-book)
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1162
dc.description 406 p. en_US
dc.description.abstract Stoicism was a school of philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC. Its name is derived from the Greek stoa, meaning porch, because that’s where Zeno first taught his students.The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions of things—rather than the things themselves—that cause most of our trouble. Stoicism teaches that we can’t control or rely on anything outside what Epictetus called our “reasoned choice”—our ability to use our reason to choose how we categorize, respond, and reorient ourselves to external events. Early Stoicism was much closer to a comprehensive philosophy like other ancient schools whose names might be vaguely familiar: Epicureanism, Cynicism, Platonism, Skepticism. Proponents spoke of diverse topics, including physics, logic, cosmology, and many others. One of the analogies favored by the Stoics to describe their philosophy was that of a fertile field. Logic was the protective fence, physics was the field, and the crop that all this produced was ethics—or how to live. As Stoicism progressed, however, it focused primarily on two of these topics—logic and ethics. Making its way from Greece to Rome, Stoicism became much more practical to fit the active, pragmatic lives of the industrious Romans. As Marcus Aurelius would later observe, “I was blessed when I set my heart on philosophy that I didn’t fall into the sophist’s trap, nor remove myself to the writer’s desk, or chop logic, or busy myself with studying the heavens.” en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Penguin, New York en_US
dc.subject discipline of will en_US
dc.subject discipline of action en_US
dc.subject discipline of perception en_US
dc.subject perseverance and the art of living en_US
dc.subject meditations on wisdom en_US
dc.title The daily stoic: 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance and the art of living. en_US
dc.type Book en_US


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