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| | | | | [caption id="attachment_2309" align="aligncenter" width="740"] Marcus Aurelius, Stoic icon[/caption] It's pretty obvious that life doesn't always go as planned. This blog is all about personal development, and that means taking control over things like our habits, our attitude, and how we manage time. But no matter how hard we work to become better at directing our own lives, the fact of the matter is much of life isn't under our control. Every day, bad things happen to good people-good people like you. | |
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| | | | | Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. It is a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. According to its teachings, as social beings, the path to eudaimonia (happiness, or blessedness) is | |
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| | | | | I have read another two books for the 20 Books of Summer challenge. The challenge is hosted by Annabel atAnnaBookBeland Emma of Words and Peace. The two books are Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Tychonium, The Experiment (my translation) by Jan Johannesson. Two rather different kind of books. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) - the manMarcus Aurelius was the last of the "Five Good Emperors" (the others being: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrianus, and Antoninus Pius). He is the epithet of a Roman emperor, bu | |
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| | | Let me ask you this: Are the people who are enthusiastic about Stoic philosophy (including me) already stoics? I mean, are they stoics even before they have read a single line from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus - or even Ryan Holiday? Is it possible to be a stoic without actually learning about Stoicism? And are some people attracted to stoics precisely because they already have a stoic personality? I remember reading Marcus Aurelius for the first time. I was standing in the cold living room of my grandmother's house, browsing books on the bookshelf. It was a happy accident, really, picking up a small random book from the shelf, opening the covers, and discovering a strange author's name and a seemingly new-age title. The book was Marcus Aurelius Medita... | ||
