Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure: Stoic Exercise for Mental Fitness with Prof. William Ferraiolo

Professor William Ferraiolo will discuss his work and book, Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure. The book provides access to the ruminations, practices, and applications of ancient Stoic philosophy as deployed by a contemporary professional philosopher with twenty five years of experience teaching, researching, and publishing articles in academic journals. William Ferraiolo received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Since that time, he has been teaching philosophy at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

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