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How to Keep Your Cool

By: Seneca, James S. Romm - translator
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
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Summary

In his essay On Anger (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-AD 65) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from On Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction, offers listeners a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger.  

Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples (especially from Caligula's horrific reign), anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity. Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us, tracing nearly all the world's evils to this one toxic source. But he then uplifts us with a beatific vision of the alternate path, a path of forgiveness and compassion that resonates with Christian and Buddhist ethics.

Seneca's thoughts on anger have never been more relevant than today, when uncivil discourse has increasingly infected public debate. Whether seeking personal growth or political renewal, listeners will find, in Seneca's wisdom, a valuable antidote to the ills of an angry age.

©2019 Princeton University Press (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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The narrator is bad. He makes me want to punch him. I wonder if this was part of the plan. You can practice anger management by fighting your desire to become angry at the sound of the narrators voice.

The guy is a bored professional narrator, he just reads it with a dead voice. Very sad. Don’t waste your money.

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Americans just can't narrate

i never buy American literature.
im interested in British & European literature, history & philosophy.
i avoid anything with an American narrator.
They are all awful.
They sound like A.I. and ate invariably grating on your nerves

Classic works should be read with classic neutral accents. English

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