In chapters including Emotion, Adversity, Virtue, and What Others Think, here is the most valuable wisdom about living a good life from ages past-now made available for our time. It was an easy read but more important now a reference guide always there when I need it. Stoics seek to become conscious of those judgments, to find the irrationality in them, and to choose them more carefully. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual is exactly that The author has done a terrific job of putting together Stoic principals into topics that apply to everyday life. This book struck me first and foremost as having been written with exceptional verbal clarity and precision. He has previously written books on rhetoric, one specifically about the use of metaphor. Farnsworth is Dean of the University of Texas School of Law.
We react to our judgments and opinions-to our thoughts about things, not to things themselves. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual is a new book by Ward Farnsworth. Presented in twelve lessons, Ward Farnsworth systematically presents the heart of Stoic philosophy accompanied by commentary that is clear and concise.Ī foundational idea to Stoicism is that we appear to go through life reacting directly to events. See more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease-here are the greatest insights of the Stoics, in their own words. This isn't just a book to read-it's a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity."- The Washington Post
The wisest students of that subject in ancient times, and perhaps of all time. "Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. The Practicing Stoic is a book about human nature and its management.
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