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For a comparable example, there is Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, which uses his experience of surviving the holocaust in four concentration camps t
by libraryofbabel 6y ago
For a comparable example, there is Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, which uses his experience of surviving the holocaust in four concentration camps to argue for an existential, meaning-centered view of the purpose of life. He doesn’t reference Stoicism directly but Epictetus is certainly in the background. As, for example, in this passage:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
- stanrivers 6y agoI have this on my bookshelf but hadn't read it yet - thank you for the reminder. That is a great quote. I often view my own small problems as insurmountable. I have a bad attitude about them more often than not. Not to trivialize small sufferings in the least, but man do people, at least me, get stuck in negativity by comparatively insignificant things.