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FAO: Philosophicaly inclined
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| Yohan |
Any good commentaries on stoicism? Esp modern ones
I've read Meditations few times, and taken a few courses on stoicism, but most of the text is pretty bland. So looking for somethiing more readable |
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| diggerz |
James Stockdale, whose writing "Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior" I found immensely valuable.
http://faculty.smu.edu/jkazez/mol07/stockdale.pdf
At the moment, I'm too busy studying four books on jewish history, starting from the maccabean revolt to the third war against the romans for a test on monday, i can't process more words as of now, but when i'm free i'll re-read it. |
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| diggerz |
being raised in a British environment, bbc is pretty much a given...
nice find though, i'm fond of this topic. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by diggerz
being raised in a British environment, bbc is pretty much a given...
nice find though, i'm fond of this topic. |
Where are you from? You and Allied Nations seem to be competing for the title of most cosmopolitan TA ever :p |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
taken a few courses on stoicism, but most of the text is pretty bland |
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| Chimney |
Only did it as a hobby, never at an education level. However Camus' "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" is very interesting an relatively easy. Nietzsche's philosophy is a bit more complicated if you want to go into that. I personally also liked the work of Kafka even if it's not always philosophy orientated.
Good luck. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| Marcus Aurelius... good stuff. He's a little antequated, we've got like the Tao to keep us busy (or unbusy or neither) these days. |
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| Psy-T |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
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lol, nice catch. :stongue: |
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