Reviews and Comments

A very welcome book in an age where most popular Stoicism-oriented self-help books heavily lean only into an egoistic improvement of the individual and "life hacks", while ignoring the crucially social and universal foundation of the philosophy. It also manages to be both academically relevant and accessible in its language. Would recommend for anyone who has had modest exposure to ancient Stoic texts.

I bought this book at half price. Looks short but sweet.

Bought this today. Looks very interesting given my previous dives into Stoic and Epicurean views on providence (or the lack of it).

Good read, many good jokes. Might be coming back for this later.

I bought this after seeing the book review by @GregSadler@metalhead.club a few months back. I've always liked Cicero's work so I'm pretty intrigued by this one.

Great assortment of moral essays by Plutarch, translated by Robin Waterfield. Introductions were done by Ian Kidd. Didn't read every essay, but I'll say I'm finished with this one for now. I'll leave a list of the essays in question here for the sake of bookkeeping: - On Listening - How to Distinguish a Flatterer from a Friend - On Being Aware of Moral Progress - Whether Military or Intellectual Exploits Have Brought Athens More Fame (unread) - On the Avoidance of Anger - On Contentment - On God's Slowness to Punish (unread) - On Socrates' Personal Deity (unread) - In Consolation to his Wife - On the use of Reason by 'Irrational' Animals (unread)

A short little book where the author colorfully and candidly depicts how it is like to attend funerals where no one, except the funeral arrangers, would show up. I liked it.

This was warmly recommended by someone from the Norwegian psychology organization. He had an intriguing and inspiring talk about optimizing the green shift from a psychological perspective. Made a lasting impression in me.

So many texts on ethics have pointed me to this one work by Aristotle. It's incredibly easy to find free ebooks for it online but I really want a physical copy of my own.

Started out reading the introduction and I'm already really intrigued. A perfect addition to my study of greco-roman philosophy.

I thought it was a pure biography at first, but Ella (and the co-writer Randi) gives an excellent insight into the history of the Sami, how it ties to the present, in addition to what issues are currently at stake in regards to the Sami culture, people and the larger society. I'm definitely going to recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about our culture in a short read. The storytelling is vivid and beautiful, not to mention very nostalgic for myself.

Looks like a short but good read.

In light of current events in Oslo, I am really motivated to read and finish this inspiring work written by a certain trailblazing Sámi activist a century ago.

I've never read any modern works on Stoicism that introduce new ideas to the table. This seems to be a good place to start.