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Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
Susan Sontag (from “Regarding the Pain of Others”):
“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half’s worth of those specialized tourists known as journalists. Wars are now also living room sights and sounds. Information about what’s
... See moreNo thinking person should be indifferent to our society’s disinvestment in the humanities.53 A society without historical scholarship is like a person without memory: deluded, confused, easily exploited. Philosophy grows out of the recognition that clarity and logic don’t come easily to us and that we’re better off when our thinking is refined and
... See moreSteven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
WEEK 6 Premeditation of future adversity
Gregory Lopez • Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life
To think, to dig into the foundations of our beliefs, is a risk, and perhaps a tragic risk. There are no guarantees that it will make us happy or even give us satisfaction.
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Stories of secular materialism regard happiness as the highest goal of life, reject external authority, and believe unwaveringly in the value of individual freedom.
Brian S. Rosner • How to Find Yourself: Why Looking Inward Is Not the Answer
despondency.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Our cultural values almost try to make us dependent on validation, entitled, and ruled by our emotions.