{"product_id":"wof-after-stoicism","title":"After Stoicism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial order:\u003c\/strong\u003e We place consolidated publisher orders once a week. Your books ship from our Pennsylvania location after they arrive. This item is not stocked for immediate dispatch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Stoic philosophers of antiquity recognized something we often forget. Good fortune does not guarantee happiness, and bad fortune does not guarantee misery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoethius was the last philosopher of ancient Rome and a Christian theologian. He was also an illustrious senator who suffered a spectacular reversal of fortune. Falsely accused of treason and sentenced to death, he spent several months in prison awaiting his execution. For consolation he turned to the Stoics he had spent his life studying. They helped him to remember that the good things he once enjoyed—wealth, power, fame—could not make him truly happy. Also, that the injustice he suffered need not make him miserable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the Stoics were not the only philosophers Boethius sought for consolation. The Stoics had taught that the highest happiness we can hope for is tranquility—serene indifference despite all the trials of life. But for Boethius, tranquility was not enough. He reached for something beyond Stoicism. Something that promised true happiness, come what may.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a guide through Boethius’s \u003ci\u003eThe Consolation of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. It shows how Boethius, in his darkest hour, took everything noble from Stoicism and fused it with a rational and religious conviction that there is a hope for happiness through and beyond the suffering of this life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Word on Fire","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":67639005446234,"sku":"WF-788","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/1367\/3818\/files\/After-Stoicism-Shopify-FRONT_2.png?v=1791476388","url":"https:\/\/deaconstore.com\/products\/wof-after-stoicism","provider":"Deacon Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}