In The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual by Ward Farnsworth the reader will find a very rigorous treatment of Stoic philosophy, and its innumerable applications to our lives. Farnsworth makes ample use of Seneca, who throughout history has had his Stoic credentials questioned. Farnsworth shows us that Seneca’s seeming Stoic unorthodoxy is very well suited to our time. Seneca’s less doctrinaire approach to Stoicism can be well-adapted to the Neo-Stoicism this is flourishing today. This is an important book for our uncertain times.
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