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Contemporary lessons derived from ancient Stoic philosophy for overcoming adversity, cultivating resilience and finding inner peace
From Marcus Aurelius to Seneca, the Stoics have a ...
To master anything, we must first master ourselves: our emotions, thoughts and actions. This ancient virtue of self-control is more essential than ever.
In this ...
Knowledge is power. Time is money. Justice is blind.
Western civilisation is a powerful brand, and full of accepted wisdoms like these that we rarely ...
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How ...
We're told you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
But what if this is not true?
Having ...
'Powerful and brilliant ... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions ...
Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do ...
Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and ...
Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how ...
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?
Slavoj Zizek has long ...
If you've ever wanted to know more about the power of 'P', the hypnotic rhythm of anapestic tetrameter, or how to change the mood ...
The second-century Greek physician Galen - the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates - is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer ...
How ought we to live? What is it to flourish as a human being? How should we best approach death? We all think about these ...