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Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. (The Stoic Virtues Series) (eBook)
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About this Book:
- In Right Thing, Right Now, Holiday draws on fascinating stories of historical figures such as Marcus Aurelius, Florence Nightingale, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, and Frederick Douglass, whose examples of kindness, honesty, integrity, and loyalty we can emulate as pillars of upright living. Through the lives of these role models, readers learn the transformational power of living by a moral code and, through the cautionary tales of unjust leaders, the consequences of an ill-formed conscience.
- The Stoics never claimed that living justly was easy, only that it was necessary. And that the alternative—sacrificing our principles for something lesser—was considered only by cowards and fools. Right Thing, Right Now is a powerful antidote to the moral failures of our modern age, and a manual for living virtuously.
- 365 pages.
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Agreed. Got turned off to him in recent years due to him getting unnecessarily political when discussing philosophy. Lost faith that he was relaying stoic truths versus his biased perspective of stoicism sold as the real thing.
Funny one side since it went political and the summary of book no doubt was gonna do that with Jimmy Carter and ghandi. But since you went there how come people can't freely express themselves on a different spectrum than what someone else believes? I agree with you by the way 100000% but too many times a lot of things get shot down as "misinformation" or "conspiracy" and when that happens it ends debate without any forethought or rebuttals. That's it.
Sad really. Why people can't express their views or concerns without be labeled "crazy" "bigot" etc and one those words are tossed around discussion is over. That's the saddest part. But these are tools to keep us divided and fighting one another and to think someone else is better or portraying to be "better". No one ever tries to think where someone else is coming from and clobber them with factual evidence yes real facts not something spit out from a low IQ yes person on cable news of CNN or Faux News.
I went political because I am commenting on it. So for those who got triggered read the comment I am responding to.
"Seneca had it. Did he use it to stop Nero? No, he did not. Cicero watched Rome tear itself into civil war while he sat on the mostly sidelines, waiting to see how it would play out. Columbia University has an $14 billion dollar endowment, a safety net and war chest it was given by its donors and alumni to protect its future and its academic independence. But when a hostile administration threatened to cancel a $400 million dollar federal contract—a fraction of its budget—the school immediately folded."