STOICISM & THE ART OF HAPPINESS Volker Hayek set out the danger

Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the principles of wartime economic and social planning to the problems of peacetime

wrapped in old bedsheets

now in his late seventies

at the local race track

Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves

STOICISM & THE ART OF HAPPINESS Volker Hayek set out the dangerThe stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in 301 BC, endured as an active movement for almost 500 years, and contributions from dazzling minds such as Cicero, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius helped create a body of thought with an extraordinary goal to provide a rational, healthy way of living in harmony