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Good books vs great books
Good books can enhance one’s intelligence, while great books have the power to awaken one’s inherent wisdom. Examples of such great works include Montaign...
Philosophy is an attempt to transform mankind
Philosophy in its original aspect is not a theoretical construct, but a method for training people to live and to look at the world in a new way. It is an...
Stoic philosophy as practice
For the Stoic, doing philosophy meant practicing how to “live”: that is, how to live freely and consciously. Consciously, in that we pass beyond the limit...
The task of philosophy
The task of philosophy … is to educate people, so that they seek only the goods they are able to obtain, and try to avoid only those evils which it is pos...