📚 9 Books mentioned in "The Stoic Guide To A Happy Life | Massimo Pigliucci | Modern Wisdom Podcast 239" of Modern Wisdom

we might as well just keep on talking about stoicism the stoic the stoic guide to a happy life 53 brief brief lessons for living why'd you write this

The host introduces the guest's book by stating its full title and subtitle.

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um for instance if if you pick up the first the very opening of the anchor reading uh it says some things are up to us other things are not up to us

The guest refers to the opening lines of 'the anchor reading' (Enchiridion).

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and if you actually if if you get anything other than caridion or of the field guide the new the new version that would be it if you just get that one and incorporate it into your daily life that's just just that one is going to change things for you

The guest refers to 'caridion' (Enchiridion) as a text that can change one's life.

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150 pages pocket sized your vader may come to take with you uh anywhere else that people should go and check out massimo

The host describes the guest's book as a 'vader may come' (vade mecum), highlighting its portability and utility.

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the thing my friend and colleague larry baker who wrote a new stoicism uh did a similar thing with the entire stoic system

The guest mentions a book by his friend and colleague, Larry Baker, titled 'a new stoicism'.

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seneca actually writes explicitly it's like look he writes a beautiful letter to his friend lucillus and he says look my friend the people that came before us are not our masters

The guest mentions Seneca writing a letter to his friend Lucilius, quoting a passage from it.

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This is he actually says so explicitly in a letter of consolation that he writes to his friend marsha who had lost an adult son

The guest mentions Seneca writing a letter of consolation to his friend Marcia.

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then throughout the middle ages and renaissance the encouridion was actually re-written and updated several times because it was used as a triangle as a training manual for tranwall is a new word that i just invented a training manual for christian monks right

The guest mentions that 'the encouridion' was used as a training manual throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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this comes out of what is sometimes referred to as epictetus role ethics uh there's a wonderful book about just about that aspect of stoicism over the patriarchs philosophy by brian johnson who is a colleague of mine at fordham university and he wrote a book on the rolatex of epicurus

The guest mentions a book by his colleague Brian Johnson about Epictetus's role ethics, referring to it as 'the rolatex of epicurus'.

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