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How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions — democracy, the alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational medicine, coins, architectural canons, dra ...Show more
How to Keep Your Cool: Anger Management by Seneca Seneca; James S. Romm
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Category: No Category | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca In his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." Thi ...Show more
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic by Sextus Empiricus
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched in ...Show more
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism by Diogenes
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness a ...Show more
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic by Sallust
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Category: Politics | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and poor, alienated Romans, he fled Rome while his associates plotted to burn the city and murder its leading politicians. The attempte ...Show more
How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome's greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one ...Show more
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
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Category: Writing | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle’s Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of g ...Show more
How to Win An Argument - Ancient Gde ... by Marcus Tullius Cicero; James A. May
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct-and often failing as a result-we'd win more arguments if we learned th ...Show more