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Stoicism. A bust of Zeno of Citium, considered the founder of Stoicism. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. [1] The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to achieving it with a life spent ...
In 1996, Bill Moyers devoted a 5-part PBS special to Smith's life and work, The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith. Smith produced three series for public television: The Religions of Man, The Search for America, and (with Arthur Compton) Science and Human Responsibility. His films on Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism have all won awards at ...
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by the author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book outlines a code of conduct based on Toltec teachings that purport to improve one’s life. The book was originally published in 1997 by Amber-Allen publishing in San Rafael, California. An illustrated edition was later ...
1. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” 2. “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” 3. “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it ...
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual sciences, such as physics and ...
An ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period, Plato is considered a fundamental piece of the Western philosophy puzzle. ... Related: 45 Carl Jung Quotes on Life, Wisdom and Perspective.
Philosophy. The philosophy of happiness is the philosophical concern with the existence, nature, and attainment of happiness. Some philosophers believe happiness can be understood as the moral goal of life or as an aspect of chance; indeed, in most European languages the term happiness is synonymous with luck. [1]
Lebensphilosophie (German: [ˈleːbm̩s.filozoˌfiː]; meaning ' philosophy of life ') was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism. Lebensphilosophie emphasised the meaning, value and purpose of life as the foremost focus of philosophy.