In Consolation To His Wife

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964901
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Consolation to his Wife written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an intimate and moving letter to his grieving wife on the death of their daughter, to elegant writings on morality, happiness and the avoidance of anger, Plutarch’s powerful words of consolation and inspiration still offer timeless wisdom and guidance today. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019512023X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to His Wife written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays with commentary and evaluative bibliography on Plutarch, Advice to the Bride and Groom and Consolation to His Wife, along with Greek texts and English translations. It is designed to help readers understand and appreciate two important documents for the study of gender and the family in the Greco-Roman world and in later Western history. This book therefore is written for both a scholarly and a general audience. The commentary, essays, and bibliography are designed for those who are reading the English translation. The Greek text, which is not otherwise easily accessible, is included for the convenience of readers who can read Greek.

Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250810086
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Consolation written by Michael Ignatieff and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.

Author : Andrew Stark
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224702
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consolations of Mortality written by Andrew Stark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who don’t believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal life provides its own kind of immortality; that true immortality would be awful; and that we experience the kinds of losses in life that we will eventually face in death. Can any of these consolations honestly reconcile us to our inevitable demise? In this timely book, Andrew Stark tests the psychological truth of these consolations and searches our collective literary, philosophical, and cultural traditions for answers to the question of how we, in the twenty-first century, might accept our mortal condition. Ranging from Epicurus and Heidegger to bucket lists, the flaming out of rock stars, and the retiring of sports jerseys, Stark’s poignant and learned exploration shows how these consolations, taken together, reveal death as a blessing no matter how much we may love life.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195344227
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to His Wife written by Plutarch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While perhaps best known for his Lives, Plutarch also wrote philosophical dialogues that constitute a major intellectual legacy from the first century A.D. This collection presents two important short works from his writings in moral philosophy. They reveal Plutarch at his best--informative, sympathetic, rich in narrative--and are accompanied by an extensive commentary that situates Plutarch and his views on marriage in their historical context.

Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061860689
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Letter of Consolation written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding faith in a time of sorrow Beloved author Henri Nouwen reflects on the spiritual significance of death and life in this moving meditation dedicated to "all those who suffer the pain that death can bring and who search for new life."

Author : Jules Claretie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camille Desmoulins and His Wife. Passages from the History of the Dantonists ... written by Jules Claretie and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A GRIEF OBSERVED (Based on a Personal Journal) written by C. S. Lewis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grief Observed is a collection of Lewis's reflections on the experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. The book was first published under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk as Lewis wished to avoid identification as the author. Though republished in 1963 after his death under his own name, the text still refers to his wife as "H" (her first name, which she rarely used, was Helen). The book is compiled from the four notebooks which Lewis used to vent and explore his grief. He illustrates the everyday trials of his life without Joy and explores fundamental questions of faith and theodicy. Lewis's step-son (Joy's son) Douglas Gresham points out in his 1994 introduction that the indefinite article 'a' in the title makes it clear that Lewis's grief is not the quintessential grief experience at the loss of a loved one, but one individual's perspective among countless others. The book helped inspire a 1985 television movie Shadowlands, as well as a 1993 film of the same name. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Author : Stephen Blackwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191028118
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy written by Stephen Blackwood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history - aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.

Author : Massimo Pigliucci
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781541644533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Stoic written by Massimo Pigliucci and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy that focuses our attention on what is possible and gives us perspective on what is unimportant. By understanding Stoicism, we can learn to answer crucial questions: Should we get married or divorced? How should we handle our money in a world nearly destroyed by a financial crisis? How can we survive great personal tragedy? Whoever we are, Stoicism has something for us--and How to Be a Stoic is the essential guide.