A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living

One of the most prominent schools of ancient philosophy is considered to be Stoicism - a philosophical system that developed in the III-II centuries BC. e. in Greece, and later adopted by Rome. The book is dedicated to the views of Epictetus, the Roman slave philosopher, one of its most prominent representatives. The author, an American philosopher, biologist and publicist, uses the few but famous works of this thinker and tries to reconstruct his worldview based on modern language, modern ...