How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Ranked #14 in Survey, Ranked #19 in Philosopher — see more rankings.
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Monatigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his... more
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Marc Andreessen Co-Founder/Andreessen HorowitzHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—All versions of a bigger question: How do you live? (Source)
Ryan Holiday AuthorMontaigne is one of humanities greatest treasures. If you've not read any of his essays or Sarah Bakewell's magnificent book How To Live [...] you are missing out. (Source)
Austin Kleon Book that introduced me to one of my new favorite thinkers: Sarah Bakewell’s How To Live: Or A Life Of Montaigne. (Source)
Nigel Warburton Like Sarah Bakewell’s more recent book, At the Existentialist Café, this is beautifully written. (Source)
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Kieran Setiya Montaigne wrote this legendarily creative series of essays that have become iconic for what self-reflection can be. (Source)
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How to Live is ranked in the following categories:
- #81 in Philosophy History
- #46 in Stoicism
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