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Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure

Stoic Exercise for Mental Fitness

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Pub Date Oct 27 2017 | Archive Date Oct 02 2017

Religion & Spirituality | Self-Help

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A collection of meditations in the Stoic tradition. Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure provides access to the ruminations, practices, and applications of ancient Stoic philosophy as deployed by a contemporary professional philosopher with twenty five years of experience teaching, researching, and publishing articles in academic journals. Each meditation is presented in the second person, encouraging the reader to examine their struggles and failures in the pursuit of self-improvement and enlightenment.

A collection of meditations in the Stoic tradition. Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure provides access to the ruminations, practices, and applications of ancient Stoic philosophy as deployed...

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Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure will make you pause and reflect… Written in the style of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and with a strong flavor of Epictetus, it confronts the reader with what happens if one looks at reality in the eyes and considers regulating his life accordingly.  Massimo Pigliucci PhD, author of How to Be Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

This short book is packed full of useful reminders, reflections, and exhortations, drawing upon and digesting resources stemming from classic Stoic philosophy and other sources of wisdom. Gregory Sadler, editor of Stoicism Today and author of Reason Fulfilled By Revelation

Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure will make you pause and reflect… Written in the style of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and with a strong flavor of...

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William Ferraiolo received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Since then, William has taught philosophy at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. He lives in Lodi, CA.


William Ferraiolo received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Since then, William has taught...

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