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Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

This book humanizes these legendary figures. It makes you realize they dealt with the same temptations and challenges, and made the same mistakes that we do today. Easy to read, it provides wonderful details about their lives and incorporates relevant... Read More

Ryan holiday is one of my favorite writers. His books build on each other and rarely feel duplicative. Read again and again for the wisdom. Well done ryan.

For it is this, and nothing else, that earns one the 'philosopher' the first definition offered by webster’s today is “all learning exclusive of technical precepts and practical arts. One gets to intimately know the people who practiced this philosoph... Read More

Not perfection, but progress. This provides insight of how great people were great, and not how they said to be great.

Cons

Holiday’s popularization of the stoic philosophy. Holiday's narration is monotone and seemingly devoid of any regard to punctuation or meaning.

This literary contrivance sounds like a teenager’s fantasy wwe game. This is ridiculous. It soundslike a teenager reciting a passage from a book in a high school philosophy class. The constant sentence fragments.

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Quality

The stoics regarded courage and moderation as two aspects of the discipline required to live consistently in accord with wisdom... Read More

I love how this book focuses on the humans that helped create shape and propagate stocisim through the years

All their strengths and weaknesses their successes and failures their interactions with the people in power their exiles and tr... Read More

As soon as that authority leaves as lethally as it may be armed the mayhem would return

Price

It is a worthy set of values to be sure

I got this for a few bucks because the kindle version was deeply discounted at the time but id pay full price for this

Packaging/appearance

I received this book in excellent condition

Competitiveness

I give this 4 stars not in comparison to other people’s works’ but to the impact the book has had on me in comparison to ryan’s other works

They were considered philosophers but few resembled philosophers as most of us think of that moniker today

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This product had a total of 2,637 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 28 2024.