01. The Theory and Practice of Psychitecture • Mind as Machine • A New Vision of Enlightenment • Introduction to Psychitecture • Beginning the Design Process
02. Cognitive Biases and How to Rewire Them • Cognitive Bias • Cognitive Debiasing • Motivated Bias • Motivational Debiasing
03. Values and the Methods of Introspection • Do You Want What You Want? • The Dukkha Bias • Introspection • Value Insight
04. Cognitive Self-Mastery and Wisdom • The Goal Hierarchy • Effective Navigation • Decoy Goals • Defined Goals
05. Emotional Algorithms and the Art of Restructuring • Regulation • Mediation • Reappraisal • Restructuring
06. Desires and the Keys to Modulating Them • Changing our Desires • Modulation Tactics • Counteraction • Principles of Modulation
07. Emotional Self-Mastery and Equanimity • On the Pathologies of Philosophers • Emotional Algorithms • • Anger and Hatred • • Embarrassment and Shame • • Envy and Schadenfreude • • Fear, Worry, and Anxiety • More Emotional Algorithms • • Grief and Sadness • • Guilt and Remorse • • Jealousy and Possessiveness • • Love, Compassion, and Empathy • Equanimity
08. Self-Direction and Its Impediments • Craving • Compliance • Comfort • Corruption
09. Behavioral Algorithms and Self-Control • Behavior, Self-Control, and Willpower • Input Design • Consequence Design • Goal Design
10. Self-Mastery • The Self-Mastery Triad • Self-Slavery • Software Optimization • Beyond the Human Condition
Psychitect's Toolkit References and Recommendations
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2020.06.30–2020.07.04
Contents
Designing the Mind (2020) Designing the Mind - The Principles of Psychitecture
01. The Theory and Practice of Psychitecture • Mind as Machine • A New Vision of Enlightenment • Introduction to Psychitecture • Beginning the Design Process
02. Cognitive Biases and How to Rewire Them • Cognitive Bias • Cognitive Debiasing • Motivated Bias • Motivational Debiasing
03. Values and the Methods of Introspection • Do You Want What You Want? • The Dukkha Bias • Introspection • Value Insight
04. Cognitive Self-Mastery and Wisdom • The Goal Hierarchy • Effective Navigation • Decoy Goals • Defined Goals
05. Emotional Algorithms and the Art of Restructuring • Regulation • Mediation • Reappraisal • Restructuring
06. Desires and the Keys to Modulating Them • Changing our Desires • Modulation Tactics • Counteraction • Principles of Modulation
07. Emotional Self-Mastery and Equanimity • On the Pathologies of Philosophers • Emotional Algorithms • • Anger and Hatred • • Embarrassment and Shame • • Envy and Schadenfreude • • Fear, Worry, and Anxiety • More Emotional Algorithms • • Grief and Sadness • • Guilt and Remorse • • Jealousy and Possessiveness • • Love, Compassion, and Empathy • Equanimity
08. Self-Direction and Its Impediments • Craving • Compliance • Comfort • Corruption
09. Behavioral Algorithms and Self-Control • Behavior, Self-Control, and Willpower • Input Design • Consequence Design • Goal Design
10. Self-Mastery • The Self-Mastery Triad • Self-Slavery • Software Optimization • Beyond the Human Condition
Psychitect's Toolkit References and Recommendations...more
Farnsworth W (2018) (09:57) Practicing Stoic, The - A Philosophical User’s Manual
Preface
Introduction
01. Judgment • The general principle • Stoic practice • Comparisons • Food • Metaphors and analogies
02. Externals • Things not up to us • Good and evil • Externals and liberty • Adding nothing to externals • Judging others
03. Perspective • Time • Space • Perishability • Applications to mortality • Reduction • Repetition • The overhead view • Implications
04. Death • Fear of death • Fearlessness of death • Correctives to fear • • The unknown experience of death • • The painlessness of death • • Death as transformation • • Comparisons to the time before birth • • Comparisons to unreasoning creatures • • Relief; the value of mortality • The progressive character of death • The availability of death • Duration vs. quality • The manner of death • Death as a universal and equalizer • The proximity of death • Intimacy with death • Mortality as inspiration
05. Desire • The insatiability of desires • Natural vs. unnatural appetites • Chasing vs. having • Disgust with possession • Envy • Desires and opinions • Useful comparisons to other people • Useful comparisons to loss
06. Wealth and Pleasure • Hazards of money • The effect of wealth on its holder • Hazards of pleasure • Things unneeded • Acceptance • Detachment • Moderation • Natural appetites (con’t.) • Uses of pleasure • Pleasures of the mind
07. What Others Think • Conformity; common opinion • The appetite for praise • Contempt for the judgments of others • Futility • Valuing one’s own judgments • Valuing things for their own sake • Contempt for contempt • Contempt for the source of the contempt • Endlessness • Humility • Mistakes • Empathy and forgiveness
08. Valuation • The present • Using the past • Time • Invisible prices, intangible benefits • Self-knowledge; humility • Love of self • Projection
09. Emotion • Inevitabilities • Fear • Antidotes to fear; rational scrutiny • Don’t borrow trouble • And what if it does? • Anger • Anger as opinion • Uses of humor • Uses of delay • Avoiding causes for anger • The endlessness of anger • Justice without anger • Grief • • Grief and opinion • • Grief and mastery • • Grief and futility • • Grief and memory • Limitations
10. Adversity • Preferences • Inevitability • Hermes’ magic wand • Equipment • Adversity as proving ground • Adversity as training • Adversity as privilege • Humility in judgment • Point of view • Anticipation • Pain and opinion • Adaptation
11. Virtue • Definitions • Benefits of virtue • Honesty • Consistency • Love, kindness, compassion • Interdependence and service
12. Learning • Review • Watching • Meditation • Places • Solitude • Good and bad company • Multitudes • The assimilation of teachings • Words • Comparisons to physical development • Dedication • Encouragement
13. Stoicism and Its Critics • Heartlessness • Impossibility • Hypocrisy...more
Epictetus (2016) (13:16) Enchiridion & Discourses, The
(2014) Enchiridion of Epictetus (edited by Arrian, translated by Th2019.12.16–2019.12.21
Contents
Epictetus (2016) (13:16) Enchiridion & Discourses, The
(2014) Enchiridion of Epictetus (edited by Arrian, translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson)
(1904) Discourses of Epictetus (edited by Arrian, translated by George Long)
Book I
01. Of the things which are in our power, and not in our power 02. How a man on every occasion can maintain his proper character 03. How a man should proceed from the principle of God being the Father of all men to the rest 04. Of progress or improvement 05. Against the academics 06. Of Providence 07. Of the use of sophistical, hypothetical, and the like arguments 08. That the faculties are not safe to the uninstructed 09. How from the fact that we are akin to God a man may proceed to the consequences 10. Against those who eagerly seek preferment at Rome 11. Of natural affection 12. Of contentment 13. How everything may he done acceptably to the gods 14. That the Deity oversees all things 15. What philosophy promises 16. Of Providence 17. That the logical art is necessary 18. That we ought not to he angry with the errors (faults) of others 19. How we should behave to tyrants 20. How reason contemplates itself 21. Against those who wish to be admired 22. Of precognitions 23. Against Epicurus 24. How we should struggle with circumstances 25. On the same subject 26. What the law of life is 27. In how many ways appearances exist, and what aids we should provide against them 28. That we ought not to he angry with men; and what are the small and great things among men 29. On constancy (or firmness) 30. What we ought to have ready in difficult circumstances
Book II
01. That courage is not inconsistent with caution 02. Of tranquility (freedom from perturbation) 03. To those who recommend persons to philosophers 04. Against a person who had once been detected in adultery 05. How magnanimity is consistent with care 06. Of indifference 07. How we ought to use divination 08. What is the nature of the good 09. That when we can not fulfil that which the character of a man promises, we assume the character of a philosopher 10. How we may discover the duties of life from names 11. What the beginning of philosophy is 12. Of disputation or discussion 13. On anxiety (solicitude) 14. To Naso 15. To or against those who obstinately persist in what they have determined 16. That we do not strive to use our opinions about good and evil 17. How we must adapt preconceptions to particular cases 18. How we should struggle against appearances 19. Against those who embrace, philosophical opinions only in words 20. Against the Epicureans and Academics 21. Of inconsistency 22. On friendship 23. On the power of speaking 24. To (or against) a person who was one of those who were not valued (esteemed) by him 25. That logic is necessary 26. What is the property of error
Book III
01. Of finery in dress 02. In what a man ought to be exercised who has made proficiency; and that we neglect the chief things 03. What is the matter on which a good man should he employed, and in what we ought chiefly to practice ourselves 04. Against a person who showed his partisanship in an unseemly way in a theatre 05. Against those who on account of sickness go away home 06. Miscellaneous 07. To the administrator of the free cities who was an Epicurean 08. How we must exercise ourselves against appearances 09. To a certain rhetorician who was going up to Rome on a suit 10. In what manner we ought to bear sickness 11. Certain miscellaneous matters 12. About exercise 13. What solitude is, and what kind of person a solitary man is 14. Certain miscellaneous matters 15. That we ought to proceed with circumspection in everything 16. That we ought with caution to enter into familiar intercourse with men 17. On Providence 18. That we ought not to be disturbed by any news 19. What is the condition of a common kind of man and of a philosopher 20. That we can derive advantage from all external things 21. Against those who readily come to the profession of sophists 22. About cynicism 23. To those who read and discuss for the sake of ostentation 24. That we ought not to be moved by a desire of those things which are not in our power 25. To those who fall off (desist) from their purpose 26. To those who fear want
Book IV
01. About freedom 02. Of familiar intimacy 03. What things we should exchange for other things 04. To those who are desirous of passing life in tranquility 05. Against the quarrelsome and ferocious 06. Against those who lament over being pitied 07. On freedom from fear 08. Against those who hastily rush into the use of the philosophic dress 09. To a person who had been changed to a character of shamelessness 10. What things we ought to despise, and what things we ought to value 11. About purity (cleanliness) 12. On attention 13. Against or to those who readily tell their own affairs...more
Frankl VE (1992) (04:44) Man's Search for Meaning - An Introduction to Logotherapy (4e)
Preface by Gordon W. Allport
Prefac2019.12.15–2019.12.16
Contents
Frankl VE (1992) (04:44) Man's Search for Meaning - An Introduction to Logotherapy (4e)
Preface by Gordon W. Allport
Preface to the 1992 Edition by Viktor E. Frankl
Part I: Experiences in a Concentration Camp
Part II: Logotherapy in a Nutshell (postscript 1984)
• The Will to Meaning • Existential Frustration • Noogenic Neuroses • Noo-Dynamics • The Existential Vacuum • The Meaning of Life • The Essence of Existence • The Meaning of Love • The Meaning of Suffering • Meta-Clinical Problems • A Logodrama • The Super-Meaning • Life’s Transitoriness • Logotherapy as a Technique • The Collective Neurosis • Critique of Pan-Determinism • The Psychiatric Credo • Psychiatry Rehumanized
Irvine WB (2008) (08:03) Guide to the Good Life, A - The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Plan for 2019.12.13–2019.12.15
Contents
Irvine WB (2008) (08:03) Guide to the Good Life, A - The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Plan for Living
Part I: The Rise of Stoicism
01. Philosophy Takes an Interest in Life 02. The First Stoics 03. Roman Stoicism
Part II: Stoic Psychological Techniques
04. Negative Visualization: What’s the Worst That Can Happen? 05. The Dichotomy of Control: On Becoming Invincible 06. Fatalism: Letting Go of the Past … and the Present 07. Self-Denial: On Dealing with the Dark Side of Pleasure 08. Meditation: Watching Ourselves Practice Stoicism
Part III: Stoic Advice
09. Duty: On Loving Mankind 10. Social Relations: On Dealing with Other People 11. Insults: On Putting Up with Put-Downs 12. Grief: On Vanquishing Tears with Reason 13. Anger: On Overcoming Anti-Joy 14. Personal Values: On Seeking Fame 15. Personal Values: On Luxurious Living 16. Exile: On Surviving a Change of Place 17. Old Age: On Being Banished to a Nursing Home 18. Dying: On a Good End to a Good Life 19. On Becoming a Stoic: Start Now and Prepare to Be Mocked
Part IV: Stoicism for Modern Lives
20. The Decline of Stoicism 21. Stoicism Reconsidered 22. Practicing Stoicism
A Stoic Reading Program Notes Works Cited Index...more
Ferriss T (2016) (08:46) Tao of Seneca, The - Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 1
How to Use This Book (by Tim2019.12.05–2019.12.12
Contents
Ferriss T (2016) (08:46) Tao of Seneca, The - Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 1
How to Use This Book (by Tim Ferriss)
01. On Saving Time 02. On Discursiveness in Reading 03. On True and False Friendship 04. On the Terrors of Death 05. On the Philosopher’s Mean 06. On Sharing Knowledge 07. On Crowds 08. On the Philosopher’s Seclusion 09. On Philosophy and Friendship 10. On Living to Oneself 11. On the Blush of Modesty
Thoughts from Modern Stoics: How to Be a Stoic: An Interview with Author Elif Batuman
12. On Old Age 13. On Groundless Fears 14. On the Reasons for Withdrawing From the World 15. On Brawn and Brains 16. On Philosophy, the Guide of Life 17. On Philosophy and Riches 18. On Festivals and Fasting 19. On Worldliness and Retirement 20. On Practicing What You Preach 21. On the Renown Which My Writings Will Bring You 22. On the Futility of Half-Way Measures 23. On the True Joy Which Comes from Philosophy 24. On Despising Death 25. On Reformation 26. On Old Age and Death 27. On the Good Which Abides 28. On Travel as a Cure for Discontent 29. On the Critical Condition of Marcellinus 30. On Conquering the Conqueror 31. On Siren Songs 32. On Progress 33. On the Futility of Learning Maxims 34. On a Promising Pupil 35. On the Friendship of Kindred Minds 36. On the Value of Retirement 37. On Allegiance to Virtue 38. On Quiet Conversation
Thoughts from Modern Stoics: “Good”: An Essay by Jocko Willink
39. On Noble Aspirations 40. On the Proper Style for a Philosopher’s Discourse 41. On the God Within Us 42. On Values 43. On the Relativity of Fame 44. On Philosophy and Pedigrees 45. On Sophistical Argumentation 46. On a New Book by Lucilius 47. On Master and Slave 48. On Quibbling as Unworthy of the Philosopher 49. On the Shortness of Life 50. On Our Blindness and Its Cure 51. On Baiae and Morals 52. On Choosing Our Teachers 53. On the Faults of the Spirit 54. On Asthma and Death 55. On Vatia’s Villa 56. On Quiet and Study 57. On the Trials of Travel 58. On Being 59. On Pleasure and Joy 60. On Harmful Prayers 61. On Meeting Death Cheerfully 62. On Good Company 63. On Grief for Lost Friends 64. On the Philosopher’s Task
Thoughts from Modern Stoics: Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: An Interview with Donald Robertson
65. On the First Cause
Profiles of Modern-Day Stoics from Tools of Titans: Jocko Willink, Derek Sivers, Sebastian Junger
Holiday R & Hanselman S (2016) (10:06) Daily Stoic, The - 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity
Introdu2019.12.08–2019.12.11
Contents
Holiday R & Hanselman S (2016) (10:06) Daily Stoic, The - 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity
Introduction • From Greece to Rome to Today • A Philosophical Book for the Philosophical Life
Part I: The Discipline of Perception
01. January: Clarity • Control and Choice • Education Is Freedom • Be Ruthless to the Things That Don’t Matter • The Big Three • Clarify Your Intentions • Where, Who, What, and Why • Seven Clear Functions of the Mind • Seeing Our Addictions • What We Control and What We Don’t • If You Want to Be Steady • If You Want to Be Unsteady • The One Path to Serenity • Circle of Control • Cut the Strings That Pull Your Mind • Peace Is in Staying the Course • Never Do Anything Out of Habit • Reboot the Real Work • See the World like a Poet and an Artist • Wherever You Go, There Your Choice Is • Reignite Your Thoughts • A Morning Ritual • The Day in Review • The Truth about Money • Push for Deep Understanding • The Only Prize • The Power of a Mantra • The Three Areas of Training • Watching the Wise • Keep It Simple • You Don’t Have to Stay on Top of Everything • Philosophy as Medicine of the Soul
02. February: Passions and Emotions • For the Hot-Headed Man • A Proper Frame of Mind • The Source of Your Anxiety • On Being Invincible • Steady Your Impulses • Don’t Seek Out Strife • Fear Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • Did That Make You Feel Better? • You Don’t Have to Have an Opinion • Anger Is Bad Fuel • Hero or Nero? • Protect Your Peace of Mind • Pleasure Can Become Punishment • Think before You Act • Only Bad Dreams • Don’t Make Things Harder than They Need to Be • The Enemy of Happiness • Prepare for the Storm • The Banquet of Life • The Grand Parade of Desire • Wish Not, Want Not • What’s Better Left Unsaid • Circumstances Have No Care for Our Feelings • The Real Source of Harm • The Smoke and Dust of Myth • To Each His Own • Cultivating Indifference Where Others Grow Passion • When You Lose Control • You Can’t Always (Be) Get(ting) What You Want
03. March: Awareness • Where Philosophy Begins • Accurate Self-Assessment • (Dis)Integration • Awareness Is Freedom • Cutting Back on the Costly • Don’t Tell Yourself Stories • Don’t Trust the Senses • Don’t Unintentionally Hand Over Your Freedom • Find the Right Scene • Find Yourself a Cato • Living without Restriction • Seeing Things as the Person at Fault Does • One Day It Will All Make Sense • Self-Deception Is Our Enemy • The Present Is All We Possess • That Sacred Part of You • The Beauty of Choice • Impossible without Your Consent • Timeless Wisdom • Ready and at Home • The Best Retreat Is In Here, Not Out There • The Sign of True Education • The Straitjacketed Soul • There Is Philosophy in Everything • Wealth and Freedom Are Free • What Rules Your Ruling Reason? • Pay What Things Are Worth • Cowardice as a Design Problem • Why Do You Need to Impress These People Again? • Reason in All Things • You’re a Product of Your Training
04. April: Unbiased Thought • The Color of Your Thoughts • Be Wary of What You Let In • Deceived and Divided • Don’t Let This Go to Your Head • Trust, but Verify • Prepare Yourself for Negativity • Expect to Change Your Opinions • The Cost of Accepting Counterfeits • Test Your Impressions • Judgments Cause Disturbance • If You Want to Learn, Be Humble • Reject Tantalizing Gifts • Less Is More • Becoming an Expert in What Matters • Pay Your Taxes • Observe Cause and Effect • No Harm, No Foul • Opinions Are Like . . . • Our Sphere of Impulses • Real Good Is Simple • Don’t Let Your Attention Slide • The Marks of a Rational Person • The Mind Is All Yours • A Productive Use for Contempt • There’s Nothing Wrong with Being Wrong • Things Happen in Training • Turn It Inside Out • Wants Make You a Servant • Washing Away the Dust of Life • What Is in Keeping with Your Character?
Part II: The Discipline of Action
05. May: Right Action • Make Character Your Loudest Statement • Be the Person You Want to Be • Show, Not Tell, What You Know • What’s Truly Impressive • You Are the Project • Righteousness Is Beautiful • How to Have a Good Day • Good and Evil? Look at Your Choices • Carpe Diem • Don’t Be Inspired, Be Inspirational • Guilt Is Worse than Jail • Kindness Is Always the Right Response • Fueling the Habit Bonfire • Our Well-Being Lies in Our Actions • Count Your Blessings • The Chain Method • The Stoic Is a Work in Progress • How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything • Learn, Practice, Train • Quality Over Quantity • What Kind of Boxer Are You? • Today Is the Day • Show Me How to Live • Making Your Own Good Fortune • Where to Find Joy • Stop Caring What People Think • Sweat the Small Stuff • The First Two Things before Acting • Work Is Therapy • Working Hard or Hardly Working? • We Have but One Obligation
06. June: Problem Solving • Always Have a Mental Reverse Clause • Plato’s View • It Is Well to Be Flexible • This Is What We’re Here For • Blow Your Own Nose • When to Stick and When to Quit • Finding the Right Mentors • Brick by Boring Brick • Solve Problems Early • You Can Do It • Just Don’t Make Things Worse • A Trained Mind Is Better than Any Script • Life Is a Battlefield • Try the Other Handle • Listening Accomplishes More than Speaking • No Shame in Needing Help • Offense or Defense? • Prepared and Active • Stay Focused on the Present • Calm Is Contagious • Take a Walk • The Definition of Insanity • The Long Way Around • The Truly Educated Aren’t Quarrelsome • The Wise Don’t Have “Problems” • Try the Opposite • Adversity Reveals • No Self-Flagellation Needed • No Excuses • The Obstacle Is the Way
07. July: Duty • Do Your Job • On Duty and Circumstance • Turn Have To into Get To • Protect the Flame • No One Said It’d Be Easy • Rise and Shine • Our Duty to Learn • Stop Monkeying Around • The Philosopher King • Love the Humble Art • The Start-Up of You • Some Simple Rules • A Leader Leads • A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous • Doing the Right Thing Is Enough • Progress of the Soul • Don’t Abandon Others . . . or Yourself • Each the Master of Their Own Domain • Forgive Them Because They Don’t Know • Made for Justice • Made for Working Together • No One Has a Gun to Your Head • Receive Honors and Slights Exactly the Same Way • Somewhere Someone’s Dying • What’s on Your Tombstone? • When Good Men Do Nothing • Where Is Anything Better? • Check Your Privilege • A Cure for the Self • Stoic Joy • Your Career Is Not a Life Sentence
08. August: Pragmatism • Don’t Go Expecting Perfection • We Can Work Any Way • The Good Life Is Anywhere • No Blame, Just Focus • Silence Is Strength • There Is Always More Room to Maneuver than You Think • Pragmatic and Principled • Start with Where the World Is • Stick with Just the Facts • Perfection Is the Enemy of Action • No Time for Theories, Just Results • Make the Words Your Own • Take Charge and End Your Troubles • This Isn’t for Fun. It’s for Life • The Supreme Court of Your Mind • Anything Can Be an Advantage • The Buck Stops Here • Only Fools Rush In • Corralling the Unnecessary • Where It Counts • Don’t Be Miserable in Advance • Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff • It’s in Your Self-Interest • Pillage from All Sources • Respect the Past, but Be Open to the Future • Seeking Out Shipwrecks • Laugh, or Cry? • The Opulent Stoic • Want Nothing = Have Everything • When You Feel Lazy • Consider Your Failings Too
Part III: The Discipline of Will
09. September: Fortitude and Resilience • A Strong Soul Is Better than Good Luck • The Philosopher’s School Is a Hospital • First, a Hard Winter Training • How Can You Know Whether You’ve Never Been Tested? • Focus on What Is Yours Alone • They Can Throw You in Chains, But . . . • Our Hidden Power • Do Not Be Deceived by Fortune • Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself • Preparing on the Sunny Day • What Would Less Look Like? • Be Down to Earth, or Be Brought Down • Protecting Our Inner Fortress from Fear • A Different Way to Pray • A Garden Is Not for Show • Anyone Can Get Lucky, Not Everyone Can Persevere • Dealing with Haters • Dealing with Pain • Flexibility of the Will • Life Isn’t a Dance • Maintain Composure, Maintain Control • No Pain, No Gain • The Most Secure Fortress • It Could Happen to You • The Vulnerability of Dependence • What Time Off Is For • What Will Prosperity Reveal? • You Hold the Trump Card • Your Actual Needs Are Small • You Can’t Touch Me
10. October: Virtue and Kindness • Let Virtue Shine Bright • The Most Valuable Asset • A Mantra of Mutual Interdependence • All for One, One for All • Words Can’t Be Unsaid • Looking Out for Each Other • A Selfish Reason to Be Good • A Higher Pleasure • Set the Standards and Use Them • Reverence and Justice • Honesty as Our Default • Always Love • Revenge Is a Dish Best Not Served • Don’t Get Mad. Help • Give People the Benefit of the Doubt • Spread the Word • The Benefit of Kindness • Frenemies • Good Habits Drive Out Bad Habits • Marks of the Good Life • Heroes, Here and Now • It’s Easy to Get Better. but Better at What? • Show the Qualities You Were Made For • The Fountain of Goodness • Two Tasks • Three Parts, One Aim • We Reap What We Sow • We Were Made for Each Other • Character Is Fate • Who Gets the Lion’s Share? • You Were Born Good
11. November: Acceptance / Amor Fati • Accepting What Is • Binding Our Wishes to What Will Be • Following the Doctor’s Orders • Not Good, Nor Bad • A Higher Power • Someone Else Is Spinning the Thread • How to Be Powerful • Actors in a Play • All Is Fluid • Always the Same • It’s Not the Thing, It’s What We Make of It • The Strong Accept Responsibility • Never Complain, Never Explain • You Choose the Outcome • Everything Is Change • Hope and Fear Are the Same • Judge Not, Lest . . . • Four Habits of the Stoic Mind • Maxims from Three Wise Men • Behold, Now as Ever • Once Is Enough, Once Is Forever • The Glass Is Already Broken • Attachments Are the Enemy • Train to Let Go of What’s Not Yours • Funny How That Works Out • The Altar of No Difference • The Pleasure of Tuning Out the Negative • It’s Not on Them, It’s on You • You’re Going to Be OK • Follow the Logos
12. December: Meditation on Mortality • Pretend Today Is the End • Don’t Mind Me, I’m Only Dying Slow • The Philosopher as an Artisan of Life and Death • You Don’t Own That • The Benefits of Sobering Thoughts • The Sword Dangles Over You • The Cards We’re Dealt • Don’t Hide from Your Feelings • Spendthrifts of Time • Don’t Sell Yourself Too Cheaply • Dignity and Bravery • The Beat Goes On • It’s Just a Number • What We Should Know by the End • A Simple Way to Measure Our Days • Everlasting Good Health • Know Thyself—Before It’s Too Late • What Comes to Us All • Human Scale • Fear the Fear of Death • What Do You Have to Show for Your Years? • Stake Your Own Claim • What Are You so Afraid of Losing? • Meaningless . . . like a Fine Wine • Don’t Burn the Candle at Both Ends • Life Is Long—If You Know How to Use It • Don’t Let Your Soul Go First • On Being Remembered • Give Thanks • Taking the Bite Out of It • Get Active in Your Own Rescue
Staying Stoic
A Model of Late Stoic Practice and Glossary of Key Terms and Passages
A Word on the Translations, References, and Sources
Inwood B (2018) Stoicism - A Very Short Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations • 1 Timeline for the history of 2019.12.02–2019.12.07
Contents
Inwood B (2018) Stoicism - A Very Short Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations • 1 Timeline for the history of Stoicism • 2 (a) The cosmic cycle; (b) the four forms of matter arrange themselves in concentric circles 43–4 • 3 The ‘scala naturae’ • 4 ‘… it is by their own natures that the cylinder rolls and the cone spins’. (Cicero, On Fate 42)
1. Ancient Stoicism and modern life • Box 1 Epitectus and Marcus Aurelius
2. Reading Stoics today: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and even Seneca
3. The origins of the school: Stoicism and Plato • Box 2 Plato’s Sophist
4. Physics • Box 3 Cicero, On Fate • Box 4 Marcus Aurelius, To Himself • Box 5 Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus • Box 6 Seneca, On Providence • Box 7 Epictetus, Discourse
5. Ethics • Box 8 Epictetus, Discourse • Box 9 Cicero, On Duties • Box 10 Epictetus, Discourse • Box 11 Cicero, On Duties • Box 12 Epictetus, Discourse • Box 13 Stoic formulations of the telos (goal of life) • Box 14 Epictetus, Handbook
Further reading and references • Texts of the ancient Stoics • For translations of the philosophical works of Seneca the best place to turn is the series published by the University of Chicago Press. • Stoicism in the modern context • Scholarship and other reading
01. Talk, Talk, Talk 02. To Be or To Do? 03. Become a Student 04. Don’t Be Passionate 05. Follow the Canvas Strategy 06. Restrain Yourself 07. Get Out of Your Own Head 08. The Danger of Early Pride 09. Work, Work, Work 10. For Everything That Comes Next, Ego Is The Enemy . . .
Part II: Success
11. Always Stay a Student 12. Don’t Tell Yourself a Story 13. What’s Important to You? 14. Entitlement, Control, and Paranoia 15. Managing Yourself 16. Beware the Disease of Me 17. Meditate on the Immensity 18. Maintain Your Sobriety 19. For What Often Comes Next, Ego Is The Enemy . . .
Part III: Failure
20. Alive Time or Dead Time? 21. The Effort Is Enough 22. Fight Club Moments 23. Draw the Line 24. Maintain Your Own Scorecard 25. Always Love 26. For Everything That Comes Next, Ego Is The Enemy . . .
Epilogue
What Should You Read Next? Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments...more
Aurelius M (180) Meditations (translation by Gregory Hays)
Introduction by Gregory Hays • Marcus Aurelius Anton–2013.12.25, 2018.01.28–2018.01.30
Contents
Aurelius M (180) Meditations (translation by Gregory Hays)
Introduction by Gregory Hays • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Philosophical Background • • Stoicism • • Stoicism and the Meditations • • Other Influences • The MEDITATIONS: Genre, Structure, and Style • Recurring Themes • Later Influence • On the Book of Marcus • Further Reading • Acknowledgments • Introduction Notes
Book 1: Debts and Lessons Book 2: On the River Gran, Among the Quadi Book 3: In Carnuntum Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Book 7 Book 8 Book 9 Book 10 Book 11 Book 12
Notes Index of Persons About the Translator...more
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