The Good Life Handbook 

The Good Life Handbook is a rendering of Epictetus' Enchiridion in plain English. It is a concise summary of the teachings of Epictetus, as transcribed and later summarized by his student Flavius Arrian. The Handbook is a guide to the good life. It answers the question, “How can we be good and live free and happy, no matter what else is happening around us?” Ancient Stoics lived in a time of turmoil under difficult conditions. So, the solutions they found to living free were tested under very stringent conditions. For example, Epictetus was a lame slave who made himself free and happy later in life by following the principles set out in this book.

 

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A Fortunate Storm 

Strange is the story of Stoicism. Three unconnected events – a shipwreck in Piraeus, a play in Thebes, and the banishment of a rebel in Turkey – connected three unrelated individuals to give birth to a philosophy. It was to endure two thousand years and offer hope and comfort to hundreds of thousands of people along the way. Stoicism had seven formal leaders or “scholarchs,” but much of what we know of Stoicism today comes from four Stoics who lived after the all the scholarchs were gone. This is the story of those eleven people. Many others contributed to Stoicism, but to make this brief and readable, Dr Chuck Chakrapani tells the story of Stoicism through these eleven leading figures of Stoicism.

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Stoic Happiness: Outline & Sample Chapters 

This is an outline and summary of Seneca’s On the Happy Life. Here, Seneca explains how to lead a happy life. He warns us that if we want to lead a productive life, we should stop following others. 

Available free for a limited time from The Stoic Gym. Includes a free subscription to The Stoic. https://www.thestoicgym.com/series/the-stoic-gym-free-library 

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THE STOIC: The Journal of the Stoic Gym 

THE STOIC is the official online magazine of The Stoic Gym. It is an applied magazine designed to bring high quality articles on how to live a life of happiness, serenity and freedom using Stoic principles. By subscribing, you can have the magazine delivered to your mailbox, as soon as an issue is published. Subscribe. It’s free! https://www.thestoicgym.com/the-stoic-subscribe 

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