Christina Kourfali

Live like the Stoics Christina Kourfali

Christina Kourfali's book, Live like the Stoics: How to get self-awareness and serenity is a useful book to those who wish to be acquainted with the teachings of the Stoics as well as to those who desire to change their mode of life. Whoever is initiated into the philosophy of the Stoics, adopts a new viewpoint of the matters of life, which will enable him or her to enjoy them more fully and -consequently- live in inner peace and serenity appreciating the present. The Stoics proposed a system of thought that brings man closer to his real and intimate nature and frees him from prejudices unwittingly acquired owing to inappropriate upbringing or wrong logic. This book is laid out in the following way: The introduction introduces the reader into the description of the stoic ideal of eudaimonia (a good flow of life) -which is the model of life propounded by the stoics- and into the way of exercise to attain this model. The main part of the book portrays -step by step- the stoic philosophy itself in the form of its theory and its practice so as the reader will be able to be initiated into it.