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En nous assujettissant à une vie brève, la nature nous fait scandaleusement subir un injuste outrage. Pourtant, ce lieu commun qui fédère les plaintes des médecins, des poètes et des philosophes est lui-même scandaleux au regard de la raison ; dans un de ses premiers traités philosophiques que l'on a trop souvent réduit à n'être qu'un pur exercice oratoire, Sénèque entreprend de redéfinir le plus complexe et le plus confus des concepts, le temps. La subtile construction rhétorique qui organise ici l'enquête ne l'empêche pas de se fonder avec précision sur la théorie stoïcienne du temps pour conduire le destinataire du traité à une pleine conversion philosophique : il s'agit de s'approprier sa propre existence en se dégageant de l'aliénation de la vie quotidienne, dans une parfaite attention au présent. Espace de l'action rationnelle et morale, le temps présent ouvre à celui qui n'a pas su encore commencer à vivre la possibilité d'une nouvelle naissance où le hasard n'a plus de place ; espace de liberté, il lui permet d'abolir les frontières qui le coupent de son passé comme de son futur, et de conquérir cette immortalité dont le désir, mal formulé, l'aliène. De cette maîtrise du temps présent dépend toute notre capacité à nous élever, comme le demande la Nature, à notre vocation divine.
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The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the physical world--and the warmth of his affection for it--combine to create an unexpected transcendence. Beasts and bodies are transformed in his lines, and our dim, unremarkable lives on this shadowed earth become somehow more luminous--small suns opening in the dark, small words to the moon.
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Unlike his predecessors, Epictetus (c. 50-120 CE), who grew up as a slave, taught Stoicism not for the select few but for the many. A student, the historian Arrian, recorded Epictetus's lectures and, in the Encheiridion, a handbook, summarized his thought. Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (54-68 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92 he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called "healing place for sick souls," he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a handbook which gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian (117-138 CE) .Epictetus was a teacher of Stoic ethics, broad and firm in method, sublime in thought, and now humorous, now sad or severe in spirit. How should one live righteously? Our god-given will is our paramount possession, and we must not covet others'. We must not resist fortune. Man is part of a system; humans are reasoning beings (in feeble bodies) and must conform to god's mind and the will of nature. Epictetus presents us also with a pungent picture of the perfect (Stoic) man. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus is in two volumes.
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"Two Little Savages" is a 1910 novel by Ernest Thompson Seton. One of the great classics of nature and youth written by one of America's best remembered nature experts, it tells the story of two boys who build a teepee in the woods and convince their parents to allow them to live alone among nature for a whole month. During that period, they learn how to cook food, make fires and beds, sanitise water, read the stars, hunt, and much, much more. Full of real lessons for real situations, this charming volume is both enjoyable and instructive, and it is ideal for young children with a love of the outdoors. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860 - 1946) was an English-born Canadian author and wildlife artist who founded the Woodcraft Indians in 1902. He was also among the founding members of the Boy Scouts of America, established in 1910. He wrote profusely on this subject, the most notable of his scouting literature including "The Birch Bark Roll" and the "Boy Scout Handbook". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Boys --- Conduct of life.
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