A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy



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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Page: 329
ISBN: 0195374614, 9780195374612


I really enjoyed A Guide To The Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. It might be up your alley as well. There is a book that came out a few years ago that seems fairly popular, called A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, (here) by William Irvine. Irvine's A Guide to the Good Life: the Ancient Art of Stoic Joy is not meant to be a scholarly work on Stoicism in the spirit of Brad Inwood or A. One of the more interesting books I've read this year is William B. Tried to read Seneca's Dialogues and Essays, but it's a slogfest. It was said that he accepted his fate with equanimity and asked his followers not to weep for him. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy is a book by William Irving in which he describes, for the layman, the philosophy of the Stoics; Stoicism. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: {The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy} (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). The more I read about Stoicism from Burkeman and in William B. Oxford University Press: New York. Irvine's: A Guide to the Good Life: The ancient art of stoic joy (Oxford University Press, 2008), I realized how unStoic I am – especially as a writer. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. Roberts III, University of Vermont. For a more in-depth read, check out the book he discusses “A Guide to the Good Life, The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy” as well as “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius. William Irvine's A Guide to the Good Life: the Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (2009) is probably the best-selling popular introduction to Stoic philosophy. Will have to check out Letters From A Stoic. Your Price: $10.98- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy.