Practical Philosophy


Meditations
Man's Search for Meaning
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Letters from a Stoic
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
The Complete Essays
The Consolations of Philosophy
The Art of Happiness
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
René Guénon
Pragmatism, by its very name, poses above all as a 'pholosophy of action'; its more or less avowed assumption is that man only has needs of a practical order, material ones and, together with these, sentimental ones. It means, then, the doing away with intellectuality; but, if this is so, why go on wanting to evolve theories? That is rather hard to understand; and if pragmatism, like skepticism, which it only differs from with regard to action, wished to conform to its own standards, it would ha ...more
René Guénon, East and West

Paul Uponi
Exemplars of virtue move us more than the ethical maxims of philosophy.
Paul Uponi, Muscular Christianity: A Case for Spiritual and Physical Fitness

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