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Same here. Meditations is fantastic, though for a more complete look into Stoicism, I can't recommend A Guide to the Good Life (The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy) by
by reifnir 10y ago
Same here. Meditations is fantastic, though for a more complete look into Stoicism, I can't recommend A Guide to the Good Life (The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy) by William B Irvine enough!
- stryan 10y agoI too recommend "A Guide to the Good Life" but saying its a "more complete look into Stoicism" seems a little exagerating. Irvine covers a lot of of the major topics and offers a many excellent ways of integrating them into modern life but underplays one of the most important aspects of Stoicism: living a virtuous lifestyle. He instead heavily plays up the tranquility aspects which I find a bit disingenuous. He also neglects many of the metaphysical aspects of Stoicism which, even if you don't believe/agree with them (I certainly don't), makes it more difficult to understand the background of a lot of Stoic teachings and practices. It's best to take Irvine's book as a guide to his own modern philosophy heavily based off Stoicism. Take that as you will, but I would recommend Stoicism and the Art of Happiness and some of the original Stoic classics; Enchiridion by Epictetus (it's short and very direct) and Seneca the Youngers Letters.
- ErikAugust 10y agoIrvine's book is good. Definitely a nice companion to reading Stoic works.
- Pamar 10y agoI mantain a small page devoted to stoicism resources. http://pa-mar.net/Main/Lifestyle/Stoicism.html http://pa-mar.net/Main/Lifestyle/Stoicism.html
- rogerdpack 10y agoSo...has your life been "happy/good" since reading these books? What's the end result? How has it changed? Cheers!