DVD
Think like a stoic : ancient wisdom for today's world.
Discover how to think and act like a Stoic as you get introduced to one of the ancient world's most important -- and practical -- schools of philosophy.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781644650622
- ISBN: 1644650622
- Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 11 hr., 15 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 186 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | 25 lectures (30 min. each). "Course No. 5030"--Container |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1. How to live like a stoic sage -- Stoicism from Heraclitus to Thoreau -- The stoic garden: physics, ethics, logic -- How stoics understand providence -- The stoics on desire and disipline -- Disc 2. The stoics on interacting with others -- The stoics on decision-making -- Seneca's letters to Lucilius -- Seneca on grief and distress -- Epictetus on the importance of reason -- Disc 3. Epictetus on overcoming fear -- Epictetus on desire, action, and judgement -- A manual for the good life: the enchiridion -- Marcus Aurelius on being thankful -- Marcus Aurelius, virtue and the vineyard -- Disc 4. Marcus Aurelius on managing turmoil -- From stoic self-mastery to cosmopolitanism -- Drawing inspiration from stoic role models -- How stoics bear responsibility and conflict -- Misusing and misunderstanding stoicism -- Stoicism for everyday life -- Four family problems and stoic solutions. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer, Massimo Pigliucci, The City University of New York. |
| System Details Note: | DVD. |
| Language Note: | In English; closed-captioned. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 188 THINK LI (Text) | 33126023861549 | Recorded Lectures | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | 188 THINK LI (Text) | 33126023861531 | Recorded Lectures | Available | - |