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100 1  Pigliucci, Massimo,|d1964-|eauthor. 
245 12 A field guide to a happy life :|b53 brief lessons for 
       living /|cMassimo Pigliucci. 
246 3  Field guide to a happy life :|bfifty-three brief lessons 
       for living 
246 30 53 brief lessons for living 
263    2011 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c2020. 
300    viii, 151 pages ;|c19 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
520    "As the Modern Stoicism movement has blossomed over the 
       past decade, its practitioners and enthusiasts have 
       struggled with some of the movement's stranger claims. 
       Should we really be indifferent to death of a loved one, 
       or to our own demise? Is it truly unacceptable to care 
       about one's work? Should we really look to nature for 
       moral guidance? And what role does Providence have in 
       ordering human affairs? In A Field Guide to a Happy Life, 
       philosopher and Stoic Massimo Pigliucci has embarked on an
       ambitious task: offering his own view how the teachings of
       the Stoics can be adapted to modern mores and knowledge, 
       taking as his inspiration the classic epitome of ancient 
       Stoicism, Epictetus' Handbook. This is not another 
       translation of Epictetus' teachings. Epictetus's ancient 
       Stoicism, with its emphasis on indifference, can seem to 
       call for us to be soulless automatons. For him, all 
       aspiration was vanity and all grieving wrong-headed. 
       Pigliucci is a modern master of the school, and is 
       offering a major revision of the philosophy. This is not 
       hubris: The ancient Stoics believed that their ideas were 
       meant to be updated by future generations. And so 
       Pigliucci revises or discards the teachings of ancient 
       Stoicism that have come to seem inhumane-arguing that it's
       fine to want to do well at work or to mourn the loss of a 
       loved-one-or unscientific, while retaining the doctrine's 
       core emphasis on resilience and equanimity. In his hands, 
       Stoicism isn't about cultivating indifference to our 
       social and emotional lives. It's about learning to endure 
       life's hardships without being overwhelmed, while enjoying
       life's pleasures without losing our heads. The Stoic 
       philosopher Seneca once wrote that "those who advanced 
       these doctrines before us are not our masters but our 
       guides." Each Stoic must be their own master. In A Field 
       Guide to a Happy Life, Pigliucci will help them find their
       way"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 00 Epictetus.|tManual. 
630 07 Manual (Epictetus)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01363124 
650  0 Conduct of life. 
650  0 Stoics. 
650  7 PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Conduct of life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00874563 
650  7 Stoics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01133750 
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