{"id":2291,"date":"2020-11-17T05:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/?page_id=2291"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T17:14:07","slug":"live-like-a-stoic-week","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-stoic-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Like a Stoic Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2291\" class=\"elementor elementor-2291\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b8efee5 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b8efee5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4acb11f6\" data-id=\"4acb11f6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-409348cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"409348cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\"><span class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium elementor-inline-editing pen\" data-elementor-setting-key=\"title\" data-pen-placeholder=\"Type Here...\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 700\">Tuesday, November 17 \u2013 Monday, November 23, 2020<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-387d7e3 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"387d7e3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7d7aca60\" data-id=\"7d7aca60\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3850ba6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3850ba6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><b>Live Like a Stoic Week<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5fbfd46 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5fbfd46\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-224f4dfb\" data-id=\"224f4dfb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1df80640 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1df80640\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Tuesday, November 17<br \/>Day 1: Nature and Fate<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-stoic-week\/lls1\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf6ZMseO8bxUHk8AQShQNcoNPrXTeM4qirmj1c_oo_C35LeJA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Wednesday,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">November<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a018<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Day 2: Virtue as\u00a0the Only Good<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-stoic-week\/lls2\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf6ZMseO8bxUHk8AQShQNcoNPrXTeM4qirmj1c_oo_C35LeJA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Thursday, November 19<br \/>Day 3: Wishing With Reservation<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-stoic-week\/lls3\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf6ZMseO8bxUHk8AQShQNcoNPrXTeM4qirmj1c_oo_C35LeJA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Friday,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">November<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a020<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Day 4: Minding\u00a0Impressions<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-stoic-week\/lls4\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">No Dropbox for Journal Entry today (combined with tomorrow)<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Saturday, November 21<br \/>Day 5: Minding Impressions (cont&#8217;d)<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-stoic-week\/lls5\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf6ZMseO8bxUHk8AQShQNcoNPrXTeM4qirmj1c_oo_C35LeJA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Sunday, November 22<br \/>Day 6: Cultivating Indifference<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-stoic-week\/lls6\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf6ZMseO8bxUHk8AQShQNcoNPrXTeM4qirmj1c_oo_C35LeJA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Monday, November 23<br \/>Day 7: Expanding Our Circle<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/live-like-a-stoic-week\/lls7\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assigned Exercise<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf6ZMseO8bxUHk8AQShQNcoNPrXTeM4qirmj1c_oo_C35LeJA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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style=\"font-size: large;\">Over&nbsp;the next seven days you will be putting some of the Stoics&#8217; views of the good life into practice. The main goal is to adopt the Stoics&#8217; notion of virtue as the only good, understood as a kind of wisdom. On each day of the week you&nbsp;will be assigned a particular activity to complete.&nbsp;Some of these activities will ask you to complete a task, reflect on a few questions, or engage in a thought experiment.&nbsp;Others will involve cultivating habits, changing your behavior with others in a certain way, or going about your everyday routine a little differently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">All of the philosophical exercises for this week are located on this page and you will need to complete them daily. This will consist of two steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">At the start of each day in the morning, you should read the assigned exercises and carry them out\u2014you can keep this assignment open on your phone throughout the day for easy access.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">At the end of each day in the evening, you should submit&nbsp;in the designated dropbox a short private <b>journal entry<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;(1-2 paragraphs) on what you\u2019ve learned.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Class periods and dialogue sessions that occur during the week will be devoted to discussing and working on your exercises individually or in groups.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">On the last day of this week (Monday, November 23)&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">you will meet in your breakout section to have&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">a \u201cpostmortem\u201d discussion on your experiences<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;putting the Stoics&#8217; views into practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Your final assignment for this unit will be a <b>synthesis essay<\/b>&nbsp;on how\/whether the approach to living well that you have put into practice this week has deepened your understanding of the Stoics&#8217; views and\/or affected your own understanding of the good life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Specifically, you should review your journal entries for this week and write an essay of approximately 1000 words summarizing your final reflections on the Stoics&#8217; approach to the good life.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Your essay<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;should engage with at least one of the theoretical views that we have covered in this unit, such as&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">the Stoics\u2019 view of virtue as the only good, the emphasis they put on minding our impressions, their idea that we should focus only on what\u2019s under our control, their understanding of our place in nature, or their views on positive versus negative emotions. Cite the texts we have studied where possible.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This essay is&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">due on&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Saturday, November 28<\/span>.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">To submit it, click&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf6ZMseO8bxUHk8AQShQNcoNPrXTeM4qirmj1c_oo_C35LeJA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&nbsp;and scroll down to access the &#8220;Dropbox for Synthesis Essay&#8221; under the section titled &#8220;Select Day.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Readin<\/span><font size=\"4\">gs for the assigned exercises and evening reflections this week are drawn from:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Marcus Aurelius, <em>Meditations<\/em>, Books 1\u20136, translated by Christopher Gill (Oxford University Press, 2013)<\/li>\n<li>Epictetus, <em>How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life<\/em> (The&nbsp;<em>Encheiridion<\/em> and selections from the&nbsp;<em>Discourses<\/em>), translated by A.A. Long (Princeton University Press, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"list-style: none;\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-21bbff01 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"21bbff01\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1bf6d318\" data-id=\"1bf6d318\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61b6bffc elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"61b6bffc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 17 \u2013 Monday, November 23, 2020 Live Like a Stoic Week Tuesday, November 17Day 1: Nature and Fate Assigned Exercise Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry Wednesday,\u00a0November\u00a018Day 2: Virtue as\u00a0the Only Good Assigned Exercise Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry Thursday, November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}