Dan, what other free books can you recommend for r9kfags like myself in need of encouragement? (Similar to Bertrand Russell's Conquest of Happiness, posted earlier)
Read the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. It may very well change your ideas about what kind of life is worth living --
"If happiness did consist in pleasure, how came notorious robbers, impure abominable livers, parricides, and tyrants, in so large a measure to have their part of pleasures? He who had all the world's pleasures at command can write thus 'A happy lot and portion is, good inclinations of the soul, good desires, good actions.' "
It's not a guide or work of philosophy, but instead the earnest words of good man in dire times. Read the short introduction in the pdf below and see if that doesn't stir up something that's been sleeping deep within you. I'm willing to bet it will.
http://truthofself.com/?get_group_doc=15/1424259312-MarcusAureliusMeditationstr.Casaubon1.pdf
All the best, anon.
"If happiness did consist in pleasure, how came notorious robbers, impure abominable livers, parricides, and tyrants, in so large a measure to have their part of pleasures? He who had all the world's pleasures at command can write thus 'A happy lot and portion is, good inclinations of the soul, good desires, good actions.' "
It's not a guide or work of philosophy, but instead the earnest words of good man in dire times. Read the short introduction in the pdf below and see if that doesn't stir up something that's been sleeping deep within you. I'm willing to bet it will.
http://truthofself.com/?get_group_doc=15/1424259312-MarcusAureliusMeditationstr.Casaubon1.pdf
All the best, anon.