The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

by Ward Farnsworth

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Farnsworth distills Stoic wisdom into twelve lessons organised thematically around judgement, externals, emotion, adversity, and virtue, drawing chiefly on Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. He weaves together excerpts from the ancient Stoics with later voices like Montaigne, Adam Smith, and Schopenhauer to present Stoicism as a practical, lived discipline rather than an academic system.

Published:: 2018
Pages:: 256

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It draws on Meditations, Letters from a Stoic and Beyond Good and Evil.

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Farnsworth draws throughout on Marcus Aurelius's Meditations as one of the three primary late Stoic sources, quoting Aurelius across chapters on judgement, perspective, emotion, and virtue

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Seneca's Letters to Lucilius are a foundational source, cited extensively across chapters on death, adversity, wealth, and virtue

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Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

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Nietzsche is among the modern critics Farnsworth engages with in the concluding chapter on Stoicism and its critics

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Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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