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What does it mean to be truly unshakeable? How do you ensure that insult and injury do not harm you? Seneca knew how to endure the unendurable. Despite being one of the most rich and powerful men in Rome, but his life was a sustained exercise in surviving forces beyond his control. He was nearly...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Read or listen to this mother's riveting account of how her son, C. Hutch, the late hip-hop artist, and his dad, Gil Hutchinson, ironically died from inappropriate doses of drugs in two separate branches of the same hospital. You may think of yourself...

Written as a letter of a friend who’s not sure he’s on the right path De Tranquillitate Animi is one of the most intimate and practical works of Stoic philosophy. Serenus confesses to a restless indecision, a “sickness of the soul” that keeps him vacillating between public duty and...

The Huáinánzǐ (淮南子) is one of the great synthetic works of early Daoism. It weaves together cosmology, statecraft, and self-cultivation into a vision of the Dào (道) as the formless, generative source of all order. It is also known under its full title Huáinán Hóngliè...

Not all Chinese philosophers were concerned with ethics or society. The most famous figure on the other side is the Epicurus of China, The Yáng Zhū. While it forms Book 7 of the canonical Daost text Lièzǐ (列子), it is so different to the rest of that work that James Legge, the first...

Can happiness be built, or does it only arrive by chance? Seneca takes up what he calls the question everyone rushes toward without stopping to think about: what is a happy life, and how is one actually achieved? Addressed to his elder brother Gallio, this is the Stoic legend at his most...

When and why are you justified in withdrawing from public life? In the brief but remarkably rich essay On Leisure (De Otio), the Stoic philosopher Seneca explains his choice to withdraw from public life into contemplative retirement. Born to a wealthy and literary family, Seneca was brought to...

“Absolutely unique — a book made for constant use and a companion for life" "I have never found a book that contains such a multitude of wise rules for the conduct of life.” - Arthur Schopenhauer “Europe has never produced anything more subtle in matters of moral knowledge" "Such a book...

The Tàishàng Gǎnyìng Piān (太上感應篇) is the most influential morality text in Chinese history, a succinct layperson's guide to Daoist ethics. It gives a long series of life rules, for both action and thought, listing specific good and bad deeds and the consequences they invite, with...

A Reminder of the Rights We Can't Afford to Forget- Reflections on Freedom, Responsibility and What It Means to Be Human What holds us together when the world feels fractured? In The Future and You, Emma Gilligan offers a quiet but powerful meditation on the enduring role of human rights and how...

Considerada uma das escolas filosóficas mais importantes da história, o estoicismo encontra-se mais vivo do que nunca nos dias de hoje. Para os estoicos, como Epicteto, Marco Aurélio e Sêneca, a busca da felicidade consiste em livrar-se das impressões apaixonadas dos sentidos e das emoções por meio do fortalecimento da vontade e da racionalidade. Antes, porém, de adentrar essa busca da virtude e prática da liberdade, é preciso conhecer seus pilares.

We are about to enter a new era when the combination of human and artificial intelligence will bring about a paradigm with a potential unseen before. This book is an invitation to delve into the labyrinth of the mind, to challenge preconceived notions, and to embrace the mysticism of awareness in all of its forms.

In this Stoic epistolary essay, addressed to his father-in-law Paulinus—a prefect of the Roman grain supply—Seneca challenges the conventional lament that life is too short. He argues instead that life is long enough, but is made brief and miserable by our habits: we waste time on trivial...

In this classic of stoic philosophy, Epictetus gives short rules for living a well-ordered life, defined by knowing what is in your control and not getting upset about what isn't. Compiled by his student Arrian from classroom lectures, it distills a lifetime of ethical teaching into fifty-two...

Lovers know that love is both vast and intense. This would seem to make it resistant to philosophical or rational analysis. Yet love's vastness and intensity are what carry it into all spheres of our lives—ethical, political, spiritual, physical. As a result, considerations of what it means to...

Un arsenal de autores y argumentos para defenderse de las ideas más estúpidas de nuestra época ¿Es racional sentirse orgulloso de tu país? ¿Es verdad que la izquierda tiene una mayor sensibilidad social que la derecha? ¿Cabe hablar de un ecologismo conservador? ¿Puede un católico...

Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' – what happens when a direct link between...

Bloomsbury presents Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals by Carol J. Adams, read by RJ Hart. In this landmark work of animal rights activism, Carol J. Adams - the bestselling author of The Sexual Politics of Meat - explores the intersections and common causes of feminism...

Critical theory was born over a century ago. Created to foster social transformation, this emerging theory would soon influence universities, politics, and pop culture across the globe and spark tense debates between groups across the sociopolitical spectrum. But what exactly lies at the heart of critical theory, and how should Christians engage with this controversial perspective? To answer these questions, we must examine the history, philosophy, and ideas of the thinkers who shaped its development.

More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces listeners to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness.