How to live. Stoicism lessons from epictate, Seneca and Mark Aurelius. Sellarus J.

- briefly tells about the main provisions of stoic philosophy.

- will share recipes on how to overcome adversities, from the emperor, senator and former slave.

- will explain why the Stoics- The most popular philosophers in the 21st century.

each of us is faced with failures and misfortunes - and much more often than we would like. The ancient Roman Stoics of Epictete, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius also faced them, and they were not at all easier than us. It was their reasoning about how to overcome life's hardships that became almost the most popular philosophical product of the 21st century. What is the incomparable benefit that can be extracted from stoic texts? Where did the stoic thought come from and how is it connected with the scientific picture of the world of antiquity? Why can't real Stoik live in isolation from society? How to coordinate internal freedom with the inevitability of causal laws? These questions are answered by a small and elegant book of the English philosopher John Sellar.