Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. (The Stoic Virtues Series)

Holiday, Ryan

ISBN 10: 0593191714 / ISBN 13: 9780593191712

Published by Portfolio, 2024

About this Item

This book is number 9,431 of 15,000 printed and is signed by the author. This book has no rips or stains. The spine is tight and intact. The dust jacket has very little wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. (The Stoic Virtues Series)
• Publisher: Portfolio
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593191714
• ISBN 13: 9780593191712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 1.25W x 5.21H x 7.32D inches 1.25 inches width by 5.21 inches height by 7.32 inches depth
• Weight: 2.315 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing what’s right – even when it isn’t easy

For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice—or one’s commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. In order to be courageous, wise, and self-disciplined, one must begin with justice.  The influence of the modern world often tells us that acting justly is optional. Holiday argues that that’s simply untrue—and the fact that so few people today have the strength to stand by their convictions explains much about why we’re so unhappy.

In Right Thing, Right Now, Holiday draws on fascinating stories of historical figures such as Marcus Aurelius, Florence Nightingale, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, and Frederick Douglass, whose examples of kindness, honesty, integrity, and loyalty we can emulate as pillars of upright living. Through the lives of these role models, readers learn the transformational power of living by a moral code and, through the cautionary tales of unjust leaders, the consequences of an ill-formed conscience.

The Stoics never claimed that living justly was easy, only that it was necessary. And that the alternative—sacrificing our principles for something lesser—was considered only by cowards and fools. Right Thing, Right Now is a powerful antidote to the moral failures of our modern age, and a manual for living virtuously.

About the Author

Ryan Holiday is one of the world’s bestselling living philosophers. His books, including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key, appear in more than forty languages and have sold over 10 million copies. He lives outside Austin with his wife and two boys ... and a small herd of cows and donkeys and goats. His bookstore, The Painted Porch, sits on historic Main Street in Bastrop, Texas.