{"id":2291,"date":"2020-11-17T05:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/?page_id=2291"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:44:25","slug":"live-like-a-stoic-week","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/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\">Monday, November 21 \u2013 Sunday, November 27, 2022<\/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;\">Monday, November 21<br \/>Day 1: Nature and Fate<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/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;\">Tuesday,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">November<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a022<\/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\/fall2022\/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;\">Wednesday, November 23<br \/>Day 3: Wishing With Reservation<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/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;\">Thursday,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">November<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a024<\/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\/fall2022\/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;\">Friday, November 25<br \/>Day 5: Minding Impressions (cont&#8217;d)<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/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;\">Saturday, November 26<br \/>Day 6: Cultivating Indifference<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/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;\">Sunday, November 27<br \/>Day 7: Expanding Our Circle<\/span><\/strong><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/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 elementor-element-6d974e11 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6d974e11\" 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<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1a4ee565\" data-id=\"1a4ee565\" 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-15a6ea75 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"15a6ea75\" 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><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Over\u00a0the 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\u00a0will be assigned a particular activity to complete.\u00a0Some of these activities will ask you to complete a task, reflect on a few questions, or engage in a thought experiment.\u00a0Others will involve cultivating habits, changing your behavior with others in a certain way, or going about your everyday routine a little differently.<\/span><\/p><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><ol><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><li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">At the end of each day in the evening, you should submit\u00a0in the designated dropbox a short private <b>journal entry<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0(1-2 paragraphs) on what you\u2019ve learned.<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Class periods and dialogue sessions that occur during the week will involve discussing and working on your exercises individually or in groups.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); font-size: large;\">Readin<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); font-size: large;\">gs for the assigned exercises and evening reflections this week are drawn from:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li>Marcus Aurelius, <em>Meditations<\/em>, Books 1\u20136, translated by Christopher Gill (Oxford University Press, 2013)<\/li><li>Epictetus, <em>How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life<\/em> (The\u00a0<em>Encheiridion<\/em> and selections from the\u00a0<em>Discourses<\/em>), translated by A.A. Long (Princeton University Press, 2018)<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/marcus-aurelius-9780199694839?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Marcus-Aurelius-cover-1-188x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5473 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Marcus-Aurelius-cover-1-188x300.jpeg 188w, https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Marcus-Aurelius-cover-1.jpeg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691177717\/how-to-be-free\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Epictetus-cover-198x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5469 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Epictetus-cover-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Epictetus-cover-677x1024.jpeg 677w, https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Epictetus-cover-768x1161.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Epictetus-cover-1016x1536.jpeg 1016w, https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Epictetus-cover-1355x2048.jpeg 1355w, https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Epictetus-cover.jpeg 1389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p><ul style=\"list-style: none;\"><li><\/li><\/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>Monday, November 21 \u2013 Sunday, November 27, 2022 Live Like a Stoic Week Monday, November 21Day 1: Nature and Fate Assigned Exercise Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry Tuesday,\u00a0November\u00a022Day 2: Virtue as\u00a0the Only Good Assigned Exercise Prompt for Evening Reflection and Dropbox for Journal Entry Wednesday, 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\/fall2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}