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How To Break Up With Your Phone
How To Break Up With Your Phone © 2018 Catherine Price 192 pages In just over a decade, smartphones have become ubiquitous and transformative. But for all the ease they add to our lives, smartphones also have an inherent capacity … Continue reading
How to Live
Musonius Rufus on How to Live© 2012 Ben White112 pages Virtus isn’t just for the men any more. Musonius Rufus is the forgotten Stoic, a man hailed alongside Socrates as nigh-saintly by Origen, but now almost forgotten. More’s the pity, because … Continue reading
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations© 2013 Jules Evans320 pages For most, philosophy is a subject that screams impotent academic prattle, the practice of strange individuals who are clearly paid too much to gaze into their navels and pontificate … Continue reading
Tending the Epicurean Garden
Tending the Epicurean Garden© 2014 Hiram Crespo185 pages Stoicism is not the only Greco-Roman school of practical philosophy experiencing a revival these days. Epicureanism, long reduced to a synonym for food-and-wine-snobs, has found an audience within the increasingly secularized west, … Continue reading
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The Simple Living Guide
The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living© 1997 Janet Luhrs444 pages Life distracts easily and passes by without being noticed. The Simple Living Guide is written as an antidote, one which both prompts people to … Continue reading
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Tagged family, food, food and drink, marriage and family, mindfulness, parenting, sacramental living, simple living
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On Desire
On Desire: Why We Want What We Want© 2007 William Irvine337 pages Why do we want what we want? William Irvine’s On Desire examines the nature of desire, exploring first how profoundly it affects our lives, then surveying psychological inquiries … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, Christianity, mindfulness, philosophy, praxis, religion, science, Stoicism
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This week at the library: Independence Day, simple living, cities, and the digestive tract
Last week’s titles: American Creation, Joseph Ellis | Gulp, Mary Roach | Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry | His Excellency, Joseph Ellis | Edens Lost and Found, various authors Dear readers: This past week I finished up my Independence Day tribute with … Continue reading
Disrupting the Rabblement
Disrupting the Rabblement: Think For Yourself, Face Your Fears, Live Your Dreams, and Piss off some Zombies© 2012 Niall Doherty~138 pages There are those who live, and those who simply exist. The majority of people, the rabblement, simply exist, and it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged authenticity, e-book, essays, mindfulness, philosophy, praxis, skepticism, Stoicism
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The Plain Reader
The Plain Reader© 1998 various authors, edited by Scott Savage272 pages What really matters? Such is the question explored by the contributing authors of The Plain Reader, a collaboration between Amish and Quaker communities to express how living simply allows … Continue reading
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Tagged children, education, energy, essays, health/wellness, mindfulness, philosophy, self reliance, simple living, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Discourses and Enchiridon
Discourses and Enchiridon, Epictetus© 1967, translated W.A. Oldfather Stoicism might be introduced to the lay reader as Buddhism for the west. Students of Stoicism often take inspiration from Buddhist philosophy, given the common emphasis on mindfulness and freedom from desire. … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", Classics and Literary, mindfulness, philosophy, praxis, Stoicism
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