Massimo Pigliucci
Italian-American philosopher and biologist; K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York; author of How to Be a Stoic (2017); writes the newsletter Figs in Winter.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The full title is Meditations: The Annotated Edition and you could spend more time looking through the notes than in the actual text.
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Pharsalia by Jane Wilson Joyce (translator) & Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
In fact, quite apart from the topic that we’re talking about today, how to be a better person, Pharsalia is one of the best epic poems in the Western tradition.
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The Character Gap by Christian B. Miller
The title, The Character Gap, refers to the notion that, typically, we’re not as good as we think we should be.
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A Guide to the Good Life by William Braxton Irvine
The second book that I recommend, William Irvine’s A Guide to the Good Life, deals with this in some detail.
on fivebooks.com · 1 Sep 2020 · Report
A New Stoicism by Laurence Becker
The first time I encountered A New Stoicism was in the context of a book group discussion in New York.
on fivebooks.com · 1 Sep 2020 · Report
The Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus
The very first book that I read after this renewed interest in Stoicism was The Discourses of Epictetus.
on fivebooks.com · 1 Sep 2020 · Report
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