Beyond stoicism A guide to the good life with stoics, skeptics, epicureans, and other ancient philosophers
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"A philosophical and practical guide to incorporating the wisdom of ancient philosophers and build on a Stoic way of life"--
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- Published
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New York :
The Experiment
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Physical Description
- 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 com
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9798893030334
- Timeline of philosophers and events
- Prologue
- Greco-Roman philosophers in their historical context
- The quest for eudaimonia
- How to use this book
- Part 1. The Port of Pleasure
- 1. Seek pleasure with Aristippus
- The original hedonists
- Pleasure is the good
- It all comes from the senses
- Cyrenaics versus Sophists and Pyrrhonists
- Live like a Cyrenaic
- 2. Avoid pain and stress with Epicurus
- Sophisticated hedonism
- Trust your senses
- The fourfold remedy
- Live like an Epicurean
- Part 2. The Port of Character
- 3. Strike the right balance with Aristotle
- The nature of virtue
- How to become (more) virtuous
- Virtue is beautiful
- Live like Aristotle
- 4. Focus on what's up to you with Epictetus
- Live in accordance with Nature
- The fundamental rule of life
- Live like a Stoic
- 5. Be a rebel like Hipparchia
- A dogs life is a good life
- Nature, not nurture
- Three kinds of freedom
- Live like a Cynic
- 6. Work toward a just society with Plato
- The daring philosopher
- The nature of political philosophy
- The centrality of human nature
- Live like Plato
- Part 3. The Port of Doubt
- 7. Question everything with Socrates
- Philosophy by refutation
- The Socratic method
- The nature of knowledge
- Live like Socrates
- 8. Practice relativism with Protagoras
- Plato's antipathy
- Understanding each other
- Moral relativism?
- Gods and religion
- The other Sophists
- Live like Protagoras
- 9. Embrace uncertainty with Carneades
- A brief history of the Academy
- The debate with the Stoics
- The probability criterion
- A most useful equation
- But is it a philosophy, or an attitude?
- Live like Carneades
- 10. Suspend judgment with Pyrrho
- The mysterious Pyrrho
- Be reasonable
- The ten modes
- Five more modes
- The criteria for action
- Live like Pyrrho
- Part 4. Here Be Dragons
- 11. Pythagoras the mystic
- Don't know much, about Pythagoras…
- Taking care of your soul
- Miracle worker
- The Pythagorean way of life
- Can we live like Pythagoreans today?
- 12. Stilpothe Megarian
- One, two, three schools?
- The only real thing is the Good
- Paradoxes, paradoxes!
- The Master Argument
- Can we live like Megarians today?
- 13. Hypatia the Neoplatonist
- The last form of Platonism
- Neoplatonism after Plotinus
- Can we live like Neoplatonists today?
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the authors