Think like a stoic Ancient wisdom for today's world
DVD - 2021
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.
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- Educational films
Lectures
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Great Courses
[2021]
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Philosophy, religion & intellectual history ; Subtopic: Ancient philosophy"--Cover.
"Course no. 50300"--Container and disc labels.
Originally produced in 2021.
25 lectures lasting approximately 27 minutes each.
Program content: ©2021. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (11 hr., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 186 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation.
- Bibliography
- Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references (p. 177-179).
- ISBN
- 9781644650622
- 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.