The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results
Tom Morris
192 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0812695593
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Language: English
Publish: 1081321200000
Tom Morris’s exuberant seminars and presentations to business leaders have taken the commanding heights of corporate America by storm and his books on philosophy for businesspeople have sold millions. Dr. Morris shows how the ideas of Stoic Philosophy – which emphasizes goals like gaining command of one’s passions and achieving indifference to pain and distress – are completely up-to-date in their relevance to the practical issues people confront in the 21st century.
Divided into three sections Dr. Morris sympathetically relates the life and intellectual achievements of the three leading the slave Epictetus, the lawyer Seneca, and the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. From the bottom of society, to the upwardly mobile middle, and all the way to the top, these thinkers saw life deeply.