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The Stoic Body

Author : Philip Ghezelbash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473418465
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The Stoic Body written by Philip Ghezelbash and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, unconventional, and thought-provoking look at modern health. "Minus flying cars and travelling at the speed of light, cutting-edge technology today was science fiction a few decades ago. We now understand almost all there is to know about the human body down to a molecular level - yet obesity, disease and depressive lifestyles are our greatest opponents. In an age which dismisses much of ancient literature as old and outdated, more people are coming to realise that time must be taken to reflect on the wisdom of those who came before us in order to resolve the issues in front of us." In The Stoic Body, Philip Ghezelbash explores a wide range of societal issues through a combination of modern scientific research and ancient lessons to give you the practical knowledge you need to dominate your health, fitness and mind. We all know to eat more vegetables and move more. But to truly live a healthy life and build a resilient body we must first aim to develop our character. This book will inspire, challenge and help you become a stronger version of yourself.

The Stoic Body

Author : Asher Brock
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781987486155
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Stoic Body written by Asher Brock and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoicism is not something new, but modern society seems to have forgotten about the many benefits of being a stoic. Being healthy, and being able to handle an illness when it comes along, is one of the many benefits of being a stoic. When we fall ill, it's viewed as being a negative in our lives, but what if you viewed your illness as an opportunity to learn, to thrive? Stoicism can help you with that. By meditating on where you want your life to go, you give yourself a goal for the future. When you focus on how to be grateful for what you have, then you realize that your illness or disease may not be so bad because you have such a wonderful support system and so much to be grateful for. Being able to have boundaries and say 'no' when you have to will allow you to focus on your needs when it's most important, and being able to detach yourself from your illness can give you the capability to make the pertinent decisions you need to in order to get better. Stoicism can teach you to create a resilience plan, understand what you have control over and what you don't, and bring you peace when you're accepting what has happened and will happen in your life. Learn how you can begin practicing stoicism in your daily life practically today.

Paul, the Stoics, and the Body of Christ

Author : Michelle V. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521091435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Paul, the Stoics, and the Body of Christ written by Michelle V. Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, Paul's words to the Corinthians about being the body of Christ seem simple and straightforward. He compares them with a human body so that they may be encouraged to work together, each member contributing to the good of the whole according to his or her special gift. However, the passage raises several critical questions which point to its deeper implications. Does Paul mean that the community is 'like' a body or is he saying that they are in some sense a real body? What is the significance of being specifically the body of Christ? Is the primary purpose of the passage to instruct on the correct use of spiritual gifts or is Paul making a statement about the identity of the Christian community? Michelle Lee examines Paul's instructions in 1 Corinthians 12-14 against the backdrop of Hellenistic moral philosophy, and especially Stoicism.

A Guide to Stoicism

Author : St. George Stock
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775418448
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Stoicism written by St. George Stock and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This informative introductory volume provides an overview and brief history of the stoicism movement.

The Happy Body

Author : Aniela & Jerzy Gregorek
Publisher : The Happy Body Press
ISBN 13 : 0982403828
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Happy Body written by Aniela & Jerzy Gregorek and published by The Happy Body Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming lean and fit is not a matter of training for a few weeks, like Rocky, to become a world champion. That only happens in Hollywood movies that portray professional athletes exercising for hours every day until they are exhausted. Real athletes never do that. They train only to the point that they can recover for the next day s training. Their progress comes in small increments, not heroic triumphs. Unfortunately, movies have persuaded people that they can become lean and fit virtually overnight. Even the weight loss and fitness industry bought into this distortion and began pushing people to become like Rocky. When that approach failed, because people were injuring themselves or burning out or jumping from one program to another, trainers began to entertain their clients instead of finding solutions to their problems. If you want to become truly lean and fit, you must work at it like an athlete, following a structured routine and that is easier and more pleasant than you may expect. The principles that work for athletes also work for ordinary people of all ages. Athletes, of course, have coaches. The Happy Body program, on the other hand, will teach you everything you need to know to be your own coach. This innovative program establishes, for the first time, exact scientific and testable methods and goals to engineer your own weight loss and fitness within precise time periods. That empowers you to self-correct your progress at every step. The Happy Body is a total health program, not just an exercise or diet plan. It will teach you to safely lose 1.0 to 2.5 pounds every week, and keep them off, without getting stuck at plateaus. You will have full control over the process, right down to the ounce. In addition to teaching you how to lose weight, the program will also help you to restore the flexibility and posture you had as a young child, and to be leaner, stronger, and faster than you have ever been. In essence, The Happy Body program will not only make you as youthful as you were at twenty, but twenty as you would have been if you had followed the program at that age.

The Daily Stoic

Author : Ryan Holiday
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735211744
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Daily Stoic written by Ryan Holiday and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

From Stoicism to Platonism

Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107166195
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis From Stoicism to Platonism by : Troels Engberg-Pedersen

Download or read book From Stoicism to Platonism written by Troels Engberg-Pedersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.

Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy

Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108624111
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy written by Brad Inwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers and doctors from the period immediately after Aristotle down to the second century CE were particularly focussed on the close relationships of soul and body; such relationships are particularly intimate when the soul is understood to be a material entity, as it was by Epicureans and Stoics; but even Aristotelians and Platonists shared the conviction that body and soul interact in ways that affect the well-being of the living human being. These philosophers were interested in the nature of the soul, its structure, and its powers. They were also interested in the place of the soul within a general account of the world. This leads to important questions about the proper methods by which we should investigate the nature of the soul and the appropriate relationships among natural philosophy, medicine, and psychology. This volume, part of the Symposium Hellenisticum series, features ten scholars addressing different aspects of this topic.

The Practicing Stoic

Author : Ward Farnsworth
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567926339
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Practicing Stoic written by Ward Farnsworth and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2018 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great insights of the Sotics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for everyone - the most valuable wisdom of ages past made available for our times, and for all time.

The Body Book

Author : Cameron Diaz
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062482882
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Body Book written by Cameron Diaz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the life-changing lessons that has fed Cameron’s hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, she shares what she has learned and continues to discover about nutrition, exercise, and the mind/body connection. Grounded in science and informed by real life, The Body Book offers a comprehensive overview of the human body and mind, from the cellular level up. From demystifying and debunking the hype around food groups to explaining the value of vitamins and minerals, readers will discover why it’s so important to embrace the instinct of hunger and to satisfy it with whole, nutrient-dense foods. Cameron also explains the essential role of movement, the importance of muscle and bone strength and why we need to sweat a little every day. The Body Bookdoes not set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year. It offers a holistic, long-term approach to making consistent choices and reaching the ultimate goal: a long, strong, happy, healthy life.

My Body Keeps Your Secrets

Author : Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Publisher : Black Spot Books
ISBN 13 : 1911648144
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book My Body Keeps Your Secrets written by Lucia Osborne-Crowley and published by Black Spot Books. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first full-length book, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of the acclaimed Mood Indigo essay I Choose Elena, writes about the secrets a woman's body keeps, from puberty to menstruation to sexual pleasure; to pregnancy or its absence; and to darker secrets of abuse, invasion or violation. Through the voices of women around the world and her own deeply moving testimony, My Body Keeps Your Secrets tells the story of the young woman's body in 2021. Moving from girlhood and adolescence to young womanhood, Osborne-Crowley establishes her credentials as a key feminist thinker of a new generation with this widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies in the age of social media.

The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient

Author : William B. Irvine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652505
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient written by William B. Irvine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, refreshingly optimistic guide that uses centuries-old wisdom to help us better cope with the stresses of modern living. Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately this is not the case. Stoicism offers us an alternative approach. Plumbing the wisdom of one of the most popular and successful schools of thought from ancient Rome, philosopher William B. Irvine teaches us to turn any challenge on its head. The Stoic Challenge, then, is the ultimate guide to improving your quality of life through tactics developed by ancient Stoics, from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca to Epictetus. This book uniquely combines ancient Stoic insights with techniques discovered by contemporary psychological research, such as anchoring and framing. The result is a surprisingly simple strategy for dealing with life’s unpleasant and unexpected challenges—from minor setbacks like being caught in a traffic jam or having a flight cancelled to major setbacks like those experienced by physicist Stephen Hawking, who slowly lost the ability to move, and writer Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered from locked-in syndrome. The Stoics discovered that thinking of challenges as tests of character can dramatically alter our emotional response to them. Irvine’s updated “Stoic test strategy” teaches us how to transform life’s stumbling blocks into opportunities for becoming calmer, tougher, and more resilient. Not only can we overcome everyday obstacles—we can benefit from them, too.

How to Be a Stoic

Author : Massimo Pigliucci
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781541644533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Stoic written by Massimo Pigliucci and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy that focuses our attention on what is possible and gives us perspective on what is unimportant. By understanding Stoicism, we can learn to answer crucial questions: Should we get married or divorced? How should we handle our money in a world nearly destroyed by a financial crisis? How can we survive great personal tragedy? Whoever we are, Stoicism has something for us--and How to Be a Stoic is the essential guide.

Stoic Warriors

Author : Nancy Sherman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199760411
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Stoic Warriors written by Nancy Sherman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoic Warriors explores the relationship between soldiers and Stoic philosophy, exploring what Stoicism actually is, the role it plays in the character of the military (both ancient and modern), and its powerful value as a philosophy of life. Marshalling anecdotes from military history--ranging from ancient Greek wars to World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq--Sherman illuminates the military mind and uses it as a window on the virtues of the Stoic philosophy. Indeed this is a perceptive investigation of what makes Stoicism so compelling not only as a guiding principle for the military, but as a philosophy for anyone facing the hardships of life.

Stoic Studies

Author : A. A. Long
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520229747
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Stoic Studies written by A. A. Long and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-08-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long's discussions enjoy consistently thorough contextualization; psychology cannot be understood without natural philosophy, nor dialectic without ethics, and Long's case studies show both that and how that is the case, in persuasive detail and with enviable clarity. The pieces fall into three subject areas: intellectual and cultural inheritance, ethics, and psychology."—Catherine Atherton, New College, Oxford "A. A. Long's Stoic Studies does far more than bring together a set of important papers on Stoicism. Read together, the papers in this collection paint two pictures. One is of the author and his broad-minded pursuit of an intellectual 'fascination,' a pursuit carried out with historical and literary rigour as well as considerable philosophical ingenuity. The other is of the Stoic school itself, emerging from a passion for Socratic arguments... It is a long and remarkably rich philosophical history, and Tony Long has done a very great deal to help others feel its fascination."—Brad Inwood, University of Toronto "Long writes in a lucid, engaging way, even when treating difficult subjects or referring to complex scholarly and philosophical debates. He has a special gift for combining, in thirty pages or so, an illuminating survey of a topic with at least one sustained analysis of a key text or theory. As a result, this collection has a coherence and internal development that makes it comparable with a good monograph."—Christopher Gill, University of Exeter

Epictetus and Laypeople

Author : Erlend D. MacGillivray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793618240
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Epictetus and Laypeople written by Erlend D. MacGillivray and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erlend D. MacGillivray’s Epictetus and Laypeople: A Stoic Stance toward the Rest of Humanity explores the understanding that ancient philosophers had towards the vast majority of people at the time, those who had no philosophical knowledge or adherence—laypeople. After exploring how philosophical identity was established in antiquity, this book examines the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, who reflected upon laypeople with remarkable frequency. MacGillivray shows that Epictetus maintained his stance that a small and distinguishable group of philosophically aware individuals existed, alongside his conviction that most of humanity can be inclined to act in accordance with virtuous principles by their dependence upon preconceptions, civic law, popular religion, exempla, and the adoption of primitive conditions, among other means. This book also highlights other Stoics and their commentators to show that the means of lay reform that MacGillivray explores were not just implicitly understood in antiquity, but reveal a well-developed system of thought in the school which has, until now, evaded the notice of modern scholars.

Lessons in Stoicism

Author : John Sellars
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241382920
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Stoicism written by John Sellars and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Stoicism inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In Lessons in Stoicism, philosopher John Sellars weaves together the key ideas of the three great Roman Stoics -- Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius -- with snapshots of their fascinating lives, to show us how their ideas can help us today. In vivid prose, Sellars shows how the works of these three Stoics have inspired readers ever since, speaking as they do to some of the perennial issues that face anyone trying to navigate their way through life. Their works, fundamentally, are about how to live -- how to understand one's place in the world, how to cope when things don't go well, how to manage one's emotions and how to behave towards others. Consoling and inspiring, Lessons in Stoicism is a deeply thoughtful guide to the philosophy of a good life.