My reading mix
There is a focus now on Greco-Roman sources, but not all of these resources are implemented, else wise this list would be 20 times at least bigger.
Bigger is not always better, with a smaller and more focused group I shall experience a slightly more noticeable growth arc.
Plato -- the 2 anthologies are in the Kobo now, those must be read over at least once a year each, for indeed with all the texts listed here, especially the primary sources repetition is key.
Aristotle -- the "complete" works that scholars prefer, i'm going through Metaphysics first.
The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers where in the 7th chapter is all about those early Stoics that we only have fragments of.
Cicero -- Delphi complete works -- there's a number of his works the student of Stoicism needs to be familiar with, On Duties is the one i'm starting off with, with Tusculan Disputations being the next one along with Stoic Paradoxes. There's also a Cambridge Companion for him and for Seneca below. And a bio by Gesine Manuwald!! and Anthony Everitt.
Seneca's works in 7 volumes, but most importantly Letters on Ethics, the volume On Benefits will have to be purchased soon though.
Epictetus' complete works plus Scott Aiken and William O Stephens' volume on The Encheiridion with a guide to Stoic Ethics.
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations -- this and the previous done by Robin Waterfield. Plus Pierre Hadot's Inner Citadel, and other Hadot works and John Sellars' book on Marcus.
Simplicius' commentary on Epictetus' Handbook
John Sellars' book on Stoicism
A.A. Long's book on Epictetus
The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition
Rene Brouwer's The Stoic Sage
Lawrence Becker's A New Stoicism -- this is an interesting one as it deals with how the modern world demolishes a lot of the ancient Stoic system and purports a new stoicism that can be respected in today's world.
Ward Farnsworth's The Practicisng Stoic
Will Johncock's Beyond the Individual
and a whole bunch of Ryan Holiday
Plus Gibbon's Decline and Fall and a few of my all time faves, Nietzsche and Cioran, Rilke and Lispector, and Lou Salome to round it all out.
I'm proud of my resources, too proud in fact, I should only be proud of what I can accomplish, to reach and permanently live in a state of tranquility, being impervious to all kinds of frustrations and so forth.
There may be some inclusion of the other isms of Antiquity, like Epicurianism, Skepticism, and Cynicsm, and Neoplatonism, Simplicius above was one of them, but the big boy of them was Plotinus, Pierre Hadot wrote a book on him, but I gather it so disoriented him he had to have a touching earth moment to get back to thinking rightly.
I plan on spending much less time being active on SW, and on Youtube my chosen professor on these things will be Gregory B Sadler, he does extensive lecture series and other kinds of videos on these matters, providing aid for a self directed study of philosophy. Philosophy as a way of living, that's the main concept, not just a dry academical treatment, although that is useful, I want to let this kind of material have an impact on my actual life, what a concept eh??
Now you all know what my higher self is tending to in a little more detail, if I make progress I will try to impart some of it in future posts, but no promises!!
How Should Stoics Respond When Bad Things Happen To Other People? | Conversations With Modern Stoics
[media=https://youtu.be/kLuobu8kJZM]
Bigger is not always better, with a smaller and more focused group I shall experience a slightly more noticeable growth arc.
Plato -- the 2 anthologies are in the Kobo now, those must be read over at least once a year each, for indeed with all the texts listed here, especially the primary sources repetition is key.
Aristotle -- the "complete" works that scholars prefer, i'm going through Metaphysics first.
The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers where in the 7th chapter is all about those early Stoics that we only have fragments of.
Cicero -- Delphi complete works -- there's a number of his works the student of Stoicism needs to be familiar with, On Duties is the one i'm starting off with, with Tusculan Disputations being the next one along with Stoic Paradoxes. There's also a Cambridge Companion for him and for Seneca below. And a bio by Gesine Manuwald!! and Anthony Everitt.
Seneca's works in 7 volumes, but most importantly Letters on Ethics, the volume On Benefits will have to be purchased soon though.
Epictetus' complete works plus Scott Aiken and William O Stephens' volume on The Encheiridion with a guide to Stoic Ethics.
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations -- this and the previous done by Robin Waterfield. Plus Pierre Hadot's Inner Citadel, and other Hadot works and John Sellars' book on Marcus.
Simplicius' commentary on Epictetus' Handbook
John Sellars' book on Stoicism
A.A. Long's book on Epictetus
The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition
Rene Brouwer's The Stoic Sage
Lawrence Becker's A New Stoicism -- this is an interesting one as it deals with how the modern world demolishes a lot of the ancient Stoic system and purports a new stoicism that can be respected in today's world.
Ward Farnsworth's The Practicisng Stoic
Will Johncock's Beyond the Individual
and a whole bunch of Ryan Holiday
Plus Gibbon's Decline and Fall and a few of my all time faves, Nietzsche and Cioran, Rilke and Lispector, and Lou Salome to round it all out.
I'm proud of my resources, too proud in fact, I should only be proud of what I can accomplish, to reach and permanently live in a state of tranquility, being impervious to all kinds of frustrations and so forth.
There may be some inclusion of the other isms of Antiquity, like Epicurianism, Skepticism, and Cynicsm, and Neoplatonism, Simplicius above was one of them, but the big boy of them was Plotinus, Pierre Hadot wrote a book on him, but I gather it so disoriented him he had to have a touching earth moment to get back to thinking rightly.
I plan on spending much less time being active on SW, and on Youtube my chosen professor on these things will be Gregory B Sadler, he does extensive lecture series and other kinds of videos on these matters, providing aid for a self directed study of philosophy. Philosophy as a way of living, that's the main concept, not just a dry academical treatment, although that is useful, I want to let this kind of material have an impact on my actual life, what a concept eh??
Now you all know what my higher self is tending to in a little more detail, if I make progress I will try to impart some of it in future posts, but no promises!!
How Should Stoics Respond When Bad Things Happen To Other People? | Conversations With Modern Stoics
[media=https://youtu.be/kLuobu8kJZM]
46-50, M