DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Think like a stoic : ancient wisdom for today's world.

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2021]

©2021

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

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.

The great courses. Philosophy, religion & intellectual history.

Great courses (DVD). Philosophy, religion & intellectual history. Ancient philosophy.

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.

Lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Educational films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Pigliucci, Massimo, lecturer.

Teaching Company, production company.

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.

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.

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