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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Stoicism offers a practical guide to living well.
Chapter 3: The striving to be virtuous is intrinsic to human nature itself.
Chapter 4: For virtue, in practice, effort truly does indeed make perfection.
Chapter 5: If philosophy fosters virtue, both men and women should indeed study it.
Chapter 6: The benefits of living virtuously outweigh the costs.
Chapter 7: A modest diet is not only healthier; it cultivates the good life.
Chapter 8: Stoicism allows us to achieve our full potential as humans.
Description
That One Should Disdain Hardships (2020) is a collection of lectures delivered in imperial Rome in the first century CE by the Stoic Gaius Musonius Rufus. Heralded as the “Roman Socrates,” Musonius’s philosophy is anything but academic. Designed to help listeners lead the best possible lives, his lectures hone in on practical, everyday questions. The result? A doctrine that you really can live by.
Who Should Listen
- Philosophers and thinkers
- History buffs
- Practical-minded ethicists