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Stoicism For Dummies

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11.01.2024

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John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Englisch

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978-1-394-20627-8

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

11.01.2024

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

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400

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22,7/19/2,5 cm

Gewicht

535 g

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1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-394-20627-8

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  • Produktbild: Stoicism For Dummies
  • Introduction 1
     
    About This Book 1
     
    Foolish Assumptions 2
     
    Icons Used in This Book 3
     
    Beyond the Book 3
     
    Where to Go from Here 4
     
    Part 1: Ancient Stoicism 5
     
    Chapter 1: Stoicism: A Philosophy for Our Time 7
     
    A Way of Thought for Our Time 8
     
    Hot philosophy in America 9
     
    The Stoic formula 9
     
    What Does "Philosophy" Even Mean? 10
     
    What Wisdom Is and Is Not 11
     
    Two sides of philosophy 12
     
    Philosophy and life 14
     
    Using Wisdom with the Stoics 17
     
    Happiness and freedom 18
     
    When to go to philosophy 20
     
    Chapter 2: Socrates and the Beginnings of Western Philosophy 21
     
    Heraclitus the (Cranky and) Obscure 22
     
    Socrates: The Barefoot Gadfly and General Pain-in-the-Patootie of Ancient Athens 24
     
    Care for the soul 25
     
    Virtue is sufficient for happiness 26
     
    No harm can come to a good person 26
     
    Virtue is knowledge 27
     
    No one does wrong willingly 27
     
    Diogenes of Sinope: Socrates on Steroids 27
     
    Virtue is the only true good 28
     
    Virtue is sufficient for happiness 28
     
    "Follow nature" 29
     
    Be a citizen of the world 29
     
    Chapter 3: The First Stoics 31
     
    The Basic Teachings of Zeno and His Stoic Followers 32
     
    Materialists through and through 32
     
    Belief in Logos 33
     
    Strict determinists 35
     
    Belief in an afterlife 35
     
    Live rationally 36
     
    The good, the evil, and the indifferent 36
     
    Only virtue leads to happiness 37
     
    Why Stoicism Had Its Moment in Ancient Greece and Rome 39
     
    Chapter 4: Stoicism Comes to Rome 41
     
    Seneca and Epictetus 42
     
    Seneca: Wealthy but Frugal 42
     
    Philosophy as a therapy for the emotions 43
     
    Coping with life's hard knocks 44
     
    Controlling anger 45
     
    Epictetus: Slave Turned Philosopher 47
     
    True freedom 48
     
    The dichotomy of control 49
     
    Radical acceptance 50
     
    Chapter 5: Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-Emperor 53
     
    A Stoic Philosopher Comes to the Throne 53
     
    Early influences 54
     
    Conversion to Stoicism 55
     
    Reign as emperor 55
     
    Personal tragedies and death 56
     
    Two Themes in Marcus's Philosophy 58
     
    Impermanence: Reality is flux 58
     
    Pessimism 59
     
    The Demise of Ancient Stoicism 63
     
    The demise of "the old gods" of paganism 63
     
    The rise of competing philosophies 63
     
    Failure to appeal to the masses 63
     
    Attacks by rival philosophical schools 64
     
    Down but not out 64
     
    Part 2: the Stoic Worldview 65
     
    Chapter 6: The Stoic View of Reality 67
     
    Everything Is Made of Matter 68
     
    God and Nature 69
     
    Stoic pantheism 69
     
    The Earth's place in the universe 70
     
    Stoic arguments for God 70
     
    Stoic belief in periodic conflagrations 72
     
    The Place of Humanity in the Cosmos 73
     
    An anthropocentric view 73
     
    Belief in a (temporary) afterlife 74
     
    Finding truth in outdated notions 76
     
    Chapter 7: Providence, Fate, and Free Will 77
     
    "Everything Is Fated" 78
     
    Fatalism gone rogue 79
     
    Free will and responsibility 81
     
    Is God to Blame for Evil? 85
     
    Seneca's response 85
     
    Natural evils and animal pain 86
     
    Are sin and evil caused by God? 87
     
    Stoic Fate and Passivity 88
     
    Divine Providence 89
     
    Part 3: Stoic Ethics 93
     
    Chapter 8: Virtue as the Goal of