Name: Lives of the Stoics: The art of Living From Zeno to Marcus Aurelius (in English)
Price: 21.00 USD
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Author: Ryan Holiday
ISBN: 9780525541875

portada Lives of the Stoics: The art of Living From Zeno to Marcus Aurelius (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ryan Holiday

Stephen Hanselman

Publisher

Portfolio

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.6 x 16.0 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9780525541875

Synopsis "Lives of the Stoics: The art of Living From Zeno to Marcus Aurelius (in English)"

Instant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller! A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a stellar work by Publishers Weekly From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients can teach us about happiness, success, resilience and virtue. Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder; the philosophy and its embrace of self-mastery, virtue, and indifference to that which we cannot control is as urgent today as it was in the chaos of the Roman Empire. In Lives of the Stoics, Holiday and Hanselman present the fascinating lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known--and not so well-known--Stoics, this book vividly brings home what Stoicism was like for the people who loved it and lived it, dusting off powerful lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes. More than a mere history book, every example in these pages, from Epictetus to Marcus Aurelius--slaves to emperors--is designed to help the reader apply philosophy in their own lives. Holiday and Hanselman unveil the core values and ideas that unite figures from Seneca to Cato to Cicero across the centuries. Among them are the idea that self-rule is the greatest empire, that character is fate; how Stoics benefit from preparing not only for success, but failure; and learn to love, not merely accept, the hand they are dealt in life. A treasure of valuable insights and stories, this book can be visited again and again by any reader in search of inspiration from the past.

Ryan Holiday

(Author)

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Autor más vendido por sus libros Trust Me, I’m Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; Conspiracy y otros libros sobre marketing, cultura y la condición humana. Su trabajo ha sido traducido a más de 30 idiomas y ha aparecido en todas partes, desde el New York Times hasta Fast Company. Su empresa, Brass Check, ha asesorado a empresas como Google, TASER y Complex, así como a músicos multiplatino y algunos de los autores más importantes del mundo. Vive en Austin, Texas.

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