Book Forum: The Pursuit of Happiness

[@StoicHumanist]

I am currently reading: On Duty by Cicero. And I have read and continue to re-read Marcus Aurelius' Mediations and many of the letters and dialogues of Seneca. Living a life of virtue and practicing character building is indeed a noble pursuit of happiness!

[@thegroovypatriot]

"We serve the law that we may be free" ~ Cicero

[@as3346]

Noble. Now, that's a novel pursuit.

[@sophianiarchos7064]

At about 44:00 without having yet listened to the entire discussion: "The only way to be educated is to educate ourselves." Doesn't such a thought lead to making professors, institutions of higher learning, and curricula irrelevant?

[@davewarwicker2512]

An attitude of loving learning vs received wisdom?

[@sophianiarchos7064]

Are you suggesting there is no learning to be had from received wisdom?

[@davewarwicker2512]

"A conscious rejection of the Western tradition" - I humbly suggest if we called this 'Anglophobia' there would be less of it.