Displaying 1 of 1 2021 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: Think like a stoic : ancient wisdom for today's world. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2021] ©2021 Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 11 hr. 15 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (186 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). 4 3/4 in. digital optical NTSC video file DVD video Summary: Discover how to think and act like a Stoic as you get introduced to one of the ancient world's most important -- and practical -- schools of philosophy. Series: The great courses. Philosophy, religion & intellectual history. Great courses (DVD). Philosophy, religion & intellectual history. Ancient philosophy. Subjects: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180 -- Philosophy. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180. Stoics. Philosophy, Ancient. Genre: Lectures. Nonfiction films. Educational films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Other Author: Pigliucci, Massimo, lecturer. Teaching Company, production company. Notes: 25 lectures (30 min. each). "Course No. 5030"--Container. Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook. Lecturer, Massimo Pigliucci, The City University of New York. DVD. In English; closed-captioned. Contents: How to live like a stoic sage -- Stoicism from Heraclitus to Thoreau -- The stoic garden: physics, ethics, logic -- How stoics understand providence -- The stoics on desire and disipline -- The stoics on interacting with others -- The stoics on decision-making -- Seneca's letters to Lucilius -- Seneca on grief and distress -- Epictetus on the importance of reason -- Epictetus on overcoming fear -- Epictetus on desire, action, and judgement -- A manual for the good life: the enchiridion -- Marcus Aurelius on being thankful -- Marcus Aurelius, virtue and the vineyard -- Marcus Aurelius on managing turmoil -- From stoic self-mastery to cosmopolitanism -- Drawing inspiration from stoic role models -- How stoics bear responsibility and conflict -- Misusing and misunderstanding stoicism -- Stoicism for everyday life -- Four family problems and stoic solutions. ISBN: 9781644650622 1644650622 9781644650622 9781644650622 Publisher Number: ID5030A-01 PB5030A 5030 Other Number: 1246782593 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 908806 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 188 Thinks l Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
