Sabiduría

How to behave in a civilization that threatens collapse? Reading the Romans whose philosophy is based on role models and not on confusing theories. This book answers very specific questions: how to use time? How to be firm in pain? Is it possible to age well? How to tame death? Should we have children? What does it mean to keep my word? What does it mean to love with love or friendship? Can we possess without being possessed? Should we worry about politics? What does nature teach us? What does a morality of honor look like? For Michel Onfray wisdom is to turn our gaze to Ancient Rome, as if we were watching a movie, and to witness the death of Pliny the Elder and the gladiatorial fights, to witness grandiose suicides and banquets of ridiculous philosophers, of sublime friendships and murders that change the course. Live history and accompany Seneca and Cicero, Epictetus and Marco Aurelio. While waiting for catastrophe, you can always live like a Roman: that is, upright and straight.