Lessons in Stoicism
by John Sellars
A philosopher's eighty-page introduction: the philosopher as doctor, what do you control, emotions, adversity, our place in nature, life and death. The cleanest short Stoicism primer, without self-help gloss.
Read it if…
you want Stoicism from an academic, briefly.
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Skip it if…
you want practices; see Holiday or Pigliucci.
Try instead: Philosophy as a Way of Life →
Three things you will actually use
- Philosophy as medicine.
- Judgements, not events, disturb.
- We are parts of a whole.
Do this first
Read it in one evening.
Our verdict
The clean short primer.
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