Details. Condition: Brand New. Format: Hardback. ISBN: 9781788162609. Publisher: Profile Books. Overview. Lives of the Stoics is a New York Times bestselling guide to the philosophers who shaped one of history's most enduring schools of thought. Written by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic, this hardback traces Stoicism from founder Zeno through to Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Rather than a dry academic text, it reads as vivid, page-turning biographies, revealing how ordinary and extraordinary people used Stoic principles to navigate ambition, adversity, power and loss.. About the Book. For over two thousand years, Stoicism has attracted statesmen, soldiers, writers and athletes drawn to its promise of self-mastery, virtue and calm amid chaos. Yet the philosophy is too often taught as abstract ideas rather than as it was actually lived. Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman correct that gap by presenting Stoicism through the biographies of the people who practised it: Zeno, the shipwrecked merchant who founded the school; Cato, who resisted tyranny to the point of death; Cicero, statesman and philosopher; Seneca, advisor to an emperor;…

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