Cultivate willpower, self-respect and focus in an age of distraction: book 2 in the New York Times-bestselling Stoic Virtues series 'Ryan Holiday is among the most psychologically wise writers I know' ANGELA DUCKWORTH, bestselling author of GritTo master anything, we must first master ourselves: our emotions, thoughts and actions.
Discover the power, confidence and purposethat come with courage: book 1 in the New York Times-bestselling Stoic Virtues series 'An urgent call to arms for each and all of us' Matthew McConaughey Courage is a powerful force that enables us to overcome obstacles, fight for what's right, serve others, drive change - and, ultimately, become who we were truly meant to be.
Seit ihren Anfängen in der Vorsokratik wurden in der griechischen Philosophie Reflexionen über das Träumen sowie zu den spirituellen und natürlichen – den physikalischen, physiologischen und psychologischen – Entstehungsursachen angestellt, die sich etwa auch in der Verwendung des Traumes als Metapher niederschlugen.
The authors reached back into history to understand the reasons and methods brilliant rabbis and Talmudic scholars abandoned the Holy Land, both physically and spiritually, to settle in what came to be known as the lands of the Diaspora.
Among the numerous faults of those who pass their lives recklessly and without due reflexion, my good friend Liberalis, I should say that there is hardly any one so hurtful to society as this, that we neither know how to bestow or how to receive a benefit.
HAPPINESS, SERENITY AND FULFILMENT ARE ALL WITHIN YOUR CONTROL365 WAYS TO BE MORE STOIC is a full year's worth of daily inspiration, tools, stories, actions, and rituals that will guide you to a meaningful life, filled with happiness.
A timely book for today's world, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations explores how to endure hardship, how to cope with change and how to find something positive out of adversity.
Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos.
For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences.
EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good.
THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be.
''De Rerum Natura'' (''On the Nature of Things'') is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.
Pierre Aubenque, der Nestor der Aristotelesforschung in Frankreich und Europa, verbindet wie kein zweiter das Interesse an der richtigen Nachzeichnung des Denkens der griechischen Philosophie der Antike mit dem intellektuellen Projekt der philosophischen Aufhellung und Beantwortung der Frage nach der Funktion und Bedeutung der von den Griechen begründeten Ethik in unserer Zeit.
Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, Plato: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place.
Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD.
Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD.
