Philosophy · Practical Philosophy
Happiness & the Good Life
A topic within Practical Philosophy, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
Reading for Practical Philosophy
3Start here
No prior grounding assumed.
- BookMeditationsMarcus Aurelius, 180
Private notes on Stoic practice, written by an emperor to himself and never intended to be read by anyone.
- BookLetters from a StoicSeneca, 65
Practical Stoicism delivered as correspondence — on time, wealth, fear and the shortness of a life spent badly.
Then
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- EssayThe Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus, 1942
Opens with suicide as the only serious philosophical problem and answers it by accepting the absurd without appeal.