Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

올봄에 리디북스를 통해 스토아 수업이라는 제목으로 번역된 책을 먼저 읽었다. 엄청 훌륭한, 본받고 싶은 스토아 학파 철학자들이 많이 소개되어 있어서, 곁에 두고 보려고 원서를 구입했다. 원서를 읽으면서 리디북스 한글판도 함께 다시 읽었는데 여전히 감동적이었다. 특별히 존경스러운 몇 분에 관한 챕터는 필사를 해볼까 생각중이다.

As Epictetus wrote, “Is it possible to be free from error? Not by any means, but it is possible to be a person stretching to avoid error.”

That’s what Stoicism is. It’s stretching. Training. To be better. To get better. To avoid one more mistake, to take one step closer toward that ideal. Not perfection, but progress—that’s what each of these lives was about.

The only question that remains for us, the living heirs to this tradition: Are we doing that work?

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