Living a Good Life: Advice on Virtue, Love, and Action from the Ancient Greek Masters
Advice on Virtue, Love and Action from the Ancient Greek Masters
$30.40
- Paperback
130 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2013
Summary
This collection of eminently practical advice from the likes of Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Pythagoras, and Aristotle covers subjects as diverse as money, child-raising, politics, philosophy, law, and relationships—all aspects of life and how to live it. Thomas Cleary has translated these sayings and aphorisms from the Arabic sources that preserved Greek thought throughout the Middle Ages. Many of the texts no longer exist in the original Greek. Included in the book is an appendix th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781570622748 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1570622744 |
| Author: | Thomas Cleary |
| Publisher: | Shambhala |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 130 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 141g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 126mm x 183mm |
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About The Author
Thomas Cleary
Thomas Cleary is the translator of “Opening the Dragon Gate” by Chen Kaiguo and Zhen Shunchao and “The Story of Chinese Zen” by Nan Huai-Chin, as well as “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, “The Book of Five Rings” by Miyamoto Musashi, “The Japanese Art of War,” and dozens of other titles on martial philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism, religion, and philosophy. He was born in 1949 and lives in Oakland, CA.
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