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Being Better
by Kai Whiting and Leonidas Konstantakos
Stoicism as social and environmental ethics, not self-help: justice, citizenship, nature. A corrective to the productivity version.
Read it if…
you want Stoicism pointed outward.
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Skip it if…
you want personal resilience tips.
Try instead: A Field Guide to a Happy Life →
Three things you will actually use
- Virtue is social.
- Live according to nature means ecology too.
- Justice is a cardinal virtue.
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Read the chapter on cosmopolitanism.
Our verdict
Stoicism for others.
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