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Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn released a new book in February.

>The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that philosophy is ars vitae, the art of living. Today, signs of stress and duress point to a full-fledged crisis for individuals and communities while current modes of making sense of our lives prove inadequate. Yet, in this time of alienation and spiritual longing, we can glimpse signs of a renewed interest in ancient approaches to the art of living.
>In this ambitious and timely book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn engages both general readers and scholars on the topic of well-being. She examines the reappearance of ancient philosophical thought in contemporary American culture, probing whether new stirrings of Gnosticism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, and Platonism present a true alternative to our current therapeutic culture of self-help and consumerism, which elevates the self's needs and desires yet fails to deliver on its promises of happiness and healing. Do the ancient philosophies represent a counter-tradition to today's culture, auguring a new cultural vibrancy, or do they merely solidify a modern way of life that has little use for inwardness--the cultivation of an inner life--stemming from those older traditions? Tracing the contours of this cultural resurgence and exploring a range of sources, from scholarship to self-help manuals, films, and other artifacts of popular culture, this book sees the different schools as organically interrelated and asks whether, taken together, they can point us in important new directions.

Has anyone taken the Lasch-Quinn pill yet? How was it?

>> No.15242438
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I wouldn’t paste that tired pill meme on it, but I have applied philosophy as an art of living.
You know where my heart lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBWDIzHldPg

>> No.15242446

>>15242438
retard

>> No.15242473

>>15242438
can you summ up that vid for me?

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>>15242473
The vid sums up Epicureanism. Nicely.

>> No.15242505

>>15242492
okay but could you please summ up that video for me?

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>>15242505
I did. It’s 11:42 in length

Lasch-Quinn will no doubt take a more thorough look and then some.

>> No.15242536

>>15242517
i'm deaf
please
would you mind writng the most important points made in the video?

>> No.15242562

>>15242536
That’s just not how it works bud. You need read the works themselves and what you acquire from them is not able to be summed up in a short YouTube video because it cannot be summed up at all. Philosophy is the activity of the soul, and you are always doing it. Trying to get the sum points of a short summary video is not going to be nutritious to your soul.

>> No.15242610

>>15242536
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/

>> No.15242763

>>15242379
Is this the daughter of our guy, Christopher Lasch.

>> No.15242798

>>15242438
Thanks for shitting up yet another topic.

>>15242763
Yes, she works in the same area as Lasch and her writings, to be somewhat reductionist, could be described as her father's ideas applied to various issues in America, e.g. race relations, personal identity and authenticity, etc.

>> No.15242811

>>15242379
>Has anyone taken the Lasch-Quinn pill yet?
>dat physiognomy
nah

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>>15242798
>posting on topic is “shitting up”