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Stoicism: Cobwebs and Gems: An Informal Conversation Between Two Stoics
During the Fall-Winter 2020 season, two modern Stoics, Tim LeBon and Chuck Chakrapani, exchanged a series of letters on modern Stoicism. Which ancient Stoic concepts are still useful? Which ones are not useful? Their letters explored the following topics:
•What are the cobwebs and gems of Stoicism?
•What did Stoics think about God?
•Is their idea of God still relevant today?
•Do we have to accept determinism to be a Stoic?
•Is Stoic physics really necessary?
•What about Epicureanism?
•Is the universe really benevolent?
•Is the universe a living thing?
•Does the universe embody wisdom?
This book is an edited and expanded version of those conversations with references added. If you are interested in Stoic philosophy as it applies to modern life, you may want to read this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Tim LeBon is an accredited CBT psychotherapist, counsellor, and Stoic Life Coach in private practice in London (UK) and one of the founders of Modern Stoicism. Dr. Chuck Chakrapani is the editor of THE STOIC magazine and the author of more than fifteen books on Stoicism, including Unshakable Freedom and How to be a Stoic When You Don't Know How.
•What are the cobwebs and gems of Stoicism?
•What did Stoics think about God?
•Is their idea of God still relevant today?
•Do we have to accept determinism to be a Stoic?
•Is Stoic physics really necessary?
•What about Epicureanism?
•Is the universe really benevolent?
•Is the universe a living thing?
•Does the universe embody wisdom?
This book is an edited and expanded version of those conversations with references added. If you are interested in Stoic philosophy as it applies to modern life, you may want to read this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Tim LeBon is an accredited CBT psychotherapist, counsellor, and Stoic Life Coach in private practice in London (UK) and one of the founders of Modern Stoicism. Dr. Chuck Chakrapani is the editor of THE STOIC magazine and the author of more than fifteen books on Stoicism, including Unshakable Freedom and How to be a Stoic When You Don't Know How.
158 pages, Paperback
Published February 22, 2021
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September 14, 2021
A bit disappointing -- Chuck unfortunately spent most of the book obsessing over proving to his interlocutor that theism is unsupportable, as if that's what Stoicism is all about. I wish much less time had been spent on that, and more on the different elements of Stoicism. I would have loved to read a book about Stoicism, and not an entire book about whether Chuck is justified in rejecting theism.
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