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

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This book demonstrates how truly wise the ancient stoics and other ancient philosophers were. It explains in real world examples of how to deal with and master our views on life and move towards the beauty of a simpler life. Savoring tranquility even ... Read More

This book is helpful to learn how to implement a stoic lifestyle. It offers actual suggestions of things to do to practice stoicism. This is a fantastic book for those who want to enter the realm of philosophy and/or stoicism.

A guide to the good the ancient art of stoic joy is a well-researched, easily accessible introduction to stoicism. It starts with a history of stoicism and then dives into the stoic principles. There are many quotes from the roman stoics such as senec... Read More

Psychologist michael irvine says stoicism is an insightful philosophy. He says it can be applied by anyone, even if they don't agree with every aspect of it. Irvine is an expert in emotive behavior therapy and a former therapist.

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Amazing clarity and cohesiveness in writing this book

Very well written and organized a perfect start for a long stoic journey of life

These techniques include negative visualization mentally rehearsing worstcase scenarios in a way that one becomes desensitized ... Read More

The tips and life hacks offered require self reflection and control of our emotions and values to make ourselves unaffected by ... Read More

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I also believe that there are more connections that could have been made between stoic systems and the buddhist tradition

The first part discusses what a life philosophy is it gives stoicism a context within other ancient philosophies and it compare... Read More

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This product had a total of 6,024 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 14 2024.