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Playing the Infinite Game During the Meta Crisis with James Carse

By James Carse — 2020

James Carse (Finite and Infinite Games) visits the Stoa to discuss how we can play the infinite game during the meta-crisis.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

Being a stoic means embracing positivity and self-control through the ability to accept the uncertainty of outcomes. With this stoicism guide, the beginner stoic will learn how to take charge of their emotions on the path to sustained happiness and satisfaction.

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Matthew Van Natta
2019
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The Essential Marcus Aurelius

The late antique world possessed no voice like that of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE).

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Jacob Needleman, John Piazza
2008
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The Discourses of Epictetus and the Enchiridion

The Discourses of Epictetus are a series of intensely practical informal lectures. Epictetus directs his students to focus attention on their opinions, anxieties, passions and desires, so that they may never fail to get what they desire.

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Epictetus
2020
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Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society

In Good Citizens, Thich Nhat Hanh lays out the foundation for an international solidarity movement based on a shared sense of compassion, mindful consumption, and right action. Following these principles, he believes, is the path to world peace.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
2008
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Ethics for the New Millennium

Only during a time when we have so little faith in one another, so little confidence in the willingness of others to do what is right, can a strong voice emerge to dispel disillusionment and show us hope.

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The Dalai Lama
2001
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The Good Life Handbook: Epictetus’ Stoic Classic Enchiridion

The Handbook is a guide to the good life. It answers the question, “How can we be good and live free and happy, no matter what else is happening around us?” It is a concise summary of the teachings of Epictetus, as transcribed and later summarized by his student Flavius Arrian.

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Chuck Chakrapani
2018
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The Discourses of Epictetus: The Handbook, Fragments

The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by Emperor Domitian, who offers by far the most precise and humane version of Stoic ideals.

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Epictetus
1995
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Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life.

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Epictetus, Robin Hard (translator), Christopher Gill
2014
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