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Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition
- EditionIllustrated
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateJuly 1, 2005
- LanguageEnglish
- File size2064 KB
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- ASIN : B00UXLB17W
- Publisher : Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (July 1, 2005)
- Publication date : July 1, 2005
- Language : English
- File size : 2064 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 256 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0195152166
- Best Sellers Rank: #722,788 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #388 in Greek & Roman Philosophy (Kindle Store)
- #951 in Ethics & Morality
- #1,578 in Ancient Greek & Roman Philosophy
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About the author
Nancy Sherman is a New York Times notable author. A distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown, she writes on ethics and military ethics. She served as the inaugural Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has awards from the National Endowment from the Humanities, the Mellon Fellowship, the Wilson Center, the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, among others. She has research training in psychoanalysis. Sherman has written six books, edited others, and authored more than 60 articles. She lectures nationally and internationally on Stoicism, moral injury, ethics, and military ethics. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Sherman's work on military and ancient ethics has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The San Diego Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, The Hartford Courant as well as in many other newspapers. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, WB11, FOX news, and Bob Abernathy's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. She has been a featured guest on over 50 radio stations nationwide, including NPR's “Diane Rehm Show,” "This American Life," and the "Kojo Nnamdi Show,” the BBC, and more. She is a frequent guest on podcasts on Stoicism and Stoic meditation and online fora. She has also been featured on radio stations abroad, including the Australian Broadcasting Company.
Sherman lives in the Washington D.C. area with her husband, Marshall Presser. They have two grown married children and grandchildren. She is a modern dancer, swims outdoors year-round, and adores hiking with the family. Gardening is also a passion. In the summer, you can find her playing in the mud in the garden!
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The modern training philosophy began with the Greeks, just as she says. Imagine what it must have taken to stand in your place in the phalanx and chop away with your sword or pike at another batch of soldiers just in front of you. You had to stand there while the men on either side of you, behind you, and if you weren't the front rank the men in front of you were hacked to pieces. And when the ones in front fell, you had to move up and take their place.
And the Greeks developed a training regimen that produced young men that could take their place in the phalanx.
Coming forward a couple of thousand years and the same concepts in training produced people that could step out of the woods on a mile long treck up hill with the rest of Picketts division. Or could get up out of the trenches and walk into the machine gun and artillery fire between the trenches. How could you do this other than stoicly?
The problems come when the soldiers return from the battle, when they are in control of captured enemy soldiers, and in many other areas. Ms. Sherman does a great job of understanding the military mind, and of some suggestions as to what may need to be changed as the world changes. Highly recommended!
I thank Nancy for taking on this huge project-- "I could not tell when Stockdale stopped talking and when he was quoting Epictetus so merged were the two. " "Aristotle thinks we need thing like friends, family, and happiness to live the Good life"- I like the way Nancy Examines practicing actual Stoicism versus the popularized modern conceptions of Stoicism. Perhaps we can integrate or delay painful emotions and paranoid reactions to those emotions. Perhaps Psychotherapy can be integrated into the debate.
I quote Dr. Milton Erickson : " I think there is a lot of hogwash going around about helping families grieve.. every diet needs a little roughage...handicaps, and losses are the roughage of life...soldiers on K-rations know they need roughage in their diets...always I try to impress upon my patients to live life and enjoy it thoroughly,
and put as much humor as possible as you possibly can into it " MHE
"We cannot change the past...we can only adequately live in the present with an eye to the future "