HOW TO BE A STOIC

In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish to dayWhenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No go al is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the gr eat emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy that focuses our attention on what is possible ...[Read more]