How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) - Hardcover

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Seneca

 
9780691238647: How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0691238642 ISBN 13: 9780691238647
Verlag: Princeton Univers. Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others—and ourselves—more fairly and mercifully

There are times when we’ve all felt that we haven’t been treated as we deserve—that we’ve been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that we’ve treated them just as unfairly. How to Do the Right Thing draws on the principles of ancient Stoicism as articulated by the Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca to help readers better navigate one of the most important practical questions of daily life—how to do right by others.

Starting from the virtue of magnanimity—the opposite of small-mindedness—How to Do the Right Thing draws together lessons from Seneca’s writings that stress the importance of calm and clear thinking, of judging oneself fairly before judging others, and of cutting people slack, with a bias toward mercy—all delivered in crisp and lively new translations, and with the original Latin on facing pages.

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Seneca Selected, translated, and introduced by Robert A. Kaster

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Verlag
Princeton Univers. Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691238642
ISBN 13 
9780691238647
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
266
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