INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In his New York Times bestselling
book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a
life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in
the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing
what’s right – even when it isn’t easy For the ancients,
everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of
justice—or one’s commitment to doing the right thing, no matter
how difficult. In order to be courageous, wise, and self-disciplined,
one must begin with justice. The influence of the modern world often
tells us that acting justly is optional. Holiday argues that that’s
simply untrue—and the fact that so few people today have the
strength to stand by their convictions explains much about why we’re
so unhappy. In Right Thing, Right Now, Holiday draws on fascinating
stories of historical figures such as Marcus Aurelius, Florence
Nightingale, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, and Frederick Douglass, whose
examples of kindness, honesty, integrity, and loyalty we can emulate
as pillars of upright living. Through the lives of these role models,
readers learn the transformational power of living by a moral code
and, through the cautionary tales of unjust leaders, the consequences
of an ill-formed conscience. The Stoics never claimed that living
justly was easy, only that it was necessary. And that the
alternative—sacrificing our principles for something lesser—was
considered only by cowards and fools. Right Thing, Right Now is a
powerful antidote to the moral failures of our modern age, and a
manual for living virtuously.
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Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780593191729
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Penguin US
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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