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One of the great modern day philosophers massimo pigliucci provides readers with the keys to living a virtuous and happy life
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This is in fact how stoicism was originally envisioned by the early roman stoics
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The truth lies open to all it has not yet been taken over
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As pigliucci wrote“consider carefully what is and is not under the archer’s control
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In this sense the promotion is the target becoming the best employee is the goal and the promotion itself becomes a “preferred indifferent” that because it is not in the individual’s complete control is simply preferred but not desired
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Finally there is the question as to whether you should read piggliucci’s field guide or epictetus’s enchiridion
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It is short concise and easy to follow and even though the examples are outdated the reader would easily get the point epictetus is trying to make
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That is after all the whole point of doing philosophy and what separates philosophy from religion thinking for oneself and not simply following the dictates of someone else’s reason
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