Description: Further DetailsTitle: How to Have a LifeCondition: NewSubtitle: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time WiselyISBN-10: 0691219125EAN: 9780691219127ISBN: 9780691219127Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/18/2022Description: A vibrant new translation of Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life,” a pointed reminder to make the most of our timeWho doesn’t worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous answers to that question in his essay “On the Shortness of Life”—a work that has more to teach us today than ever before. In How to Have a Life, James Romm presents a vibrant new translation of Seneca’s brilliant essay, plus two Senecan letters on the same theme, complete with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction.With devastating satiric wit, skillfully captured in this translation, Seneca lampoons the ways we squander our time and fail to realize how precious it is. We don’t allow people to steal our money, yet we allow them to plunder our time, or else we give it away ourselves in useless, idle pursuits. Seneca also describes how we can make better use of our brief days and years. In the process, he argues, we can make our lives longer, or even everlasting, because to live a real life is to attain a kind of immortality.A counterweight to the time-sucking distractions of the modern world, How to Have a Life offers priceless wisdom about making our time—and our lives—count.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 171mmItem Length: 114mmContributor: James S. Romm (Edited by)Genre: Society & CultureBook Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern ReadersTopic: Personal Development, Business & Finance, Philosophy & SpiritualityAuthor: SenecaRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: How to Have a Life
Title: How to Have a Life
Subtitle: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
ISBN-10: 0691219125
EAN: 9780691219127
ISBN: 9780691219127
Release Date: 10/18/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: James S. Romm (Edited by)
Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
Book Title: How to Have Alife : an Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Personal Growth / Happiness, General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Self-Management / Time Management
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Philosophy, Self-Help
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Author: Seneca
Item Length: 7 in
Item Width: 4.9 in
Book Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Format: Hardcover
