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How to Keep Your Cool

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Self-Help, Social Science
Unabridged   2 hour(s)
Publication date: 03/05/2019

How to Keep Your Cool

An Ancient Guide to Anger Management

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684571222
Digital Download ISBN:9781684571239

Summary

Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca.

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Product Description

In his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from "On Anger," presented with an enlightening introduction, offers listeners a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger.

Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples (especially from Caligula's horrific reign), anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity. Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us, tracing nearly all the world's evils to this one toxic source. But he then uplifts us with a beatific vision of the alternate path, a path of forgiveness and compassion that resonates with Christian and Buddhist ethics.

Seneca's thoughts on anger have never been more relevant than today, when uncivil discourse has increasingly infected public debate. Whether seeking personal growth or political renewal, listeners will find, in Seneca's wisdom, a valuable antidote to the ills of an angry age.

Reviews/Praise

How to Keep Your Cool presents one of Seneca’s most timely essays in an attractive format that is sure to appeal to readers. James Romm’s excellent translation is more readable than any other.”―A. A. Long, author of Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

Author Bio

Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. As a writer Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies.