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The Classics

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In this collection, we offer the wisdom of the ages on how to live well, ease suffering, and connect to something beyond ourselves.

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5 Reasons Why Plato and Aristotle Still Matter Today

The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle may seem like the quintessential Dead White Males, but in fact they’re very much alive.

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Arthur Herman
2013
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Aristotle on ‘Flourishing’

How to live a good life? Aristotle’s answer was live virtuously: do what a virtuous person would do. Learn more about Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, where he explained how to flourish.

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Aristotle
2015
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Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence

“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”

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Maria Popova
2019
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Emerson: The Ideal in America (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The first video biography of "America's Founding Thinker," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's belief in "the infinitude of the private man" still resonates with spiritual seekers today.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
2007
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Lao Tzu on Living an Inspired and Peaceful Life

Many centuries ago, Lao Tzu spoke of the four cardinal virtues, teaching that when we practice them as a way of life, we come to know the truth of the universe.

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Azriel Reshel
2016
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Plato, Aristotle, and Stoicism

This is Lecture 4 in the course 'Church History: Early and Medieval'.

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Aristotle
2014
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Life Hacks from Marcus Aurelius: How Stoicism Can Help Us

Stepping back from emotional and physical chaos to reach a state of calm, clear-headed thinking is the bedrock of Stoicism, a philosophy famously practiced by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Learn more in this Knowledge@Wharton interview with author and psychotherapist Donald Robertson.

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Knowledge@Wharton
2019
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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (Short Documentary)

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Aristotle
2015
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Aristotle’s Pursuit of Happiness

The ideas of the Greek philosopher can still help us create better lives and communities

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Edith Hall
2019
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Eastern Philosophy - Confucius

This great Chinese philosopher believed in everything we ignore nowadays: tradition, institution, obedience and order. That’s why he matters.

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Confucius
2015
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Did Lao-Tzu and Confucius Know Each Other?

The Legend of Two Masters: From a New Introduction to the Tao Te Ching

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John Minford
2018
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