![]() ![]() He’s written books on law, rhetoric, and chess, as well as scholarly articles on the economic analysis of law, constitutional law, statutory interpretation, jurisprudence, and cognitive psychology. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. Well, they’re not written like most books because they weren’t written to be books! Ward Farnsworth is the Dean and Research Chair of The University of Texas School of Law. If you wanted to find criticism for these works, you might say the thoughts are scattered, the themes disorganized, or the “chapters” not arranged like most books. These works are not just timeless, they’re unlike any other work you’ll find on the shelves of bookstores. And Letters from a Stoic is the responses of a man to a friend in need of advice. ![]() Discourses is the product of the copious note-taking of a student aware that his teacher’s words might be useful to those who could not attend lectures. Meditations is the private thoughts of a man trying to navigate ruling the Roman Empire. But because the Author’s had no intention of publishing a book. And not because these works stand the test of some two millennia. ![]() That you can walk into a Barnes & Noble today, wander to the philosophy section, and grab a copy of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Discourses by Epictetus, or Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, and that hundreds and thousands of people have and still do, is a fact worthy of considerable bewilderment. That the works of the original Stoics survive still today is truly remarkable. ![]()
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