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Indlæser... The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results (udgave 2004)af Tom Morris
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This book is a sample of stoic philosophy explained by a philosophy professor who has become a motivational speaker in corporate America. The prose is therefore reminiscent of all the upbeat, motivational corporate seminars that I've attended over the years. It is direct, but free of nuance and poetry. The thinkers, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, are voices of the Roman republic and empire, and their thoughts are abstracted in this volume. The author is somewhat critical of Epictetus and his lack of feeling, or rather his lack of attention to the positive effects of feeling on motivation and satisfaction. I am very attracted, perforce, to stoicism, given all the minor disappointments I have each day. I wish that many of my patients would develop stoicism for their ailments. This book was not profound, and my experience of it was interrupted and I did not grasp a sustained argument. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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 Stoics: 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. No library descriptions found. |
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