How to Do the Right Thing (eBook)

An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly

Seneca (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23865-4 (ISBN)

Infos

How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat othersand ourselvesmore fairly and mercifully There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deservethat we've been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that we've treated them just as unfairly. How to Do the Right Thing draws on the principles of ancient Stoicism as articulated by the Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca to help readers better navigate one of the most important practical questions of daily lifehow to do right by others.Starting from the virtue of magnanimitythe opposite of small-mindednessHow to Do the Right Thing draws together lessons from Seneca's writings that stress the importance of calm and clear thinking, of judging oneself fairly before judging others, and of cutting people slack, with a bias toward mercyall delivered in crisp and lively new translations, and with the original Latin on facing pages.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Übersetzer: Robert Kaster
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: activism • Affirmative Action • Anecdote • awareness • Ayn Rand • Capitalism • cato institute • Cicero • Concept • Consequentialism • Conservatism • cowardice • cruelty • Democracy • distributive justice • epicurus • Epistle • Epithet • Equanimity • Essay • family values • Feeling • flattery • foolishness • For a New Liberty • forbearance • Forgiveness • Generosity • Gratitude • Intellectual • Intellectual Property • Intention • Intersectionality • Joke • Left-Libertarianism • Legitimacy (political) • Libertarianism • Libertarianism in the United States • Libertarian socialism • Liberty • Limited Government • Loren Lomasky • Magnanimity • meanness • moral imperative • Morality • Moral Relativism • Murray Rothbard • Natural and legal rights • Negative Liberty • organization • Organizing principle • Ownership • Paleolibertarianism • pardon • pater patriae • Person • Philosopher • pity • political alliance • practical ethics • premise • Prerogative • Principle • Prudence • punishment • Reactionary • Reality • reason • Requirement • result • Reverence (emotion) • right to property • Robert Nozick • Rule Of Thumb • saving • school of thought • Self-Assessment • self-awareness • Self-control • Self-ownership • sensibility • Socialism • social issue • Social Justice • Spontaneous Order • state socialism • Stoicism • The Ethics of Liberty • theory • The Other Hand • The Road to Serfdom • Thought • Trait Theory • treatise • Value (ethics) • well-being • Western Culture • Wound • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23865-0 / 0691238650
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23865-4 / 9780691238654