Epic Stoicism: Seek Socrates' Virtue in Art, Science, & Philosophy! Heal the Blind! Exalt in the Riches of Epictetus's, Aurelius's, & Seneca's Wisdom!: ... (45EPIC Hero's Odyssey Mythology)

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“I loved Dr. E’s lecture on how the higher Stoicism can guide and exalt our hero’s odysseys in art and entrepreneurship, and I loved this book even more.” –Sam, UCLA MBA Epictetus exalts Socrates: The very last words of Epictetus’s noble Enchiridion are spoken by Socrates: "Crito, if it thus pleases the gods, thus let it be. Anytus and Mellitus may kill me indeed, but hurt me they cannot." (Plato's Crito and Apology) While elaborating on his own personal story on how he exalted Stoicism to its deserved heights across numerous fields including innovative technology which is now helping he blind see, epic fine art landscape photography, and the science of Light Time Dimension Theory, Dr. Elliot McGucken provides commentary on each of the verses Epictetus’s wonderful Enchiridion—the classic Stoic manual for the "good life." Stoicism is a far greater and more exalted philosophy than it is oft given credit for. While Socrates was celebrated by Zeno, Epictetus, Aurelius, Seneca, and every other formidable Stoic, today he is largely ignored by the marketing Stoics--the mkstoics. In this book, graced with dozens of Dr. E’s epic fine art photographs, the spirit of Socrates is resurrected and exalted. This book will inspire, mentor, and guide you in helping you to exalt your art, business, science, philosophy, and life via Stoicism's higher soul, as inspired by the likes of Epictetus and Socrates. When writing on the Stoics, the great philosopher Bertrand Russell stated: "Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death, and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts." --Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book One, Part III, Chapter XXVIII: Stoicism, p. 253 And yet, in book after marketing book on stoicism, Socrates, and thus Stoicisms' higher nature, are ignored. Well, consider this book a “Return of the King” story. This book views Stoicism not only as a noble destination, but as a gateway to the exalted logic, geometry, science, and epic Homeric poetry of yore which can inform and guide all your future ventures in art and entrepreneurship. Best wishes on Your Epic Stoic Journey! About Dr. Elliot McGucken: Long story short, in physics and photography alike, award-winning physicist Dr. E has always chased the light. In high school, Dr. E received his first Pentax camera as well as the Bausch & Lomb Science Award, the William Tenney Scholar-Athlete Award, and the Judith Resnik Memorial Scholarship which helped him attend Princeton University to study physics. Dr. E’s Ph.D. research on an artificial retina for the blind, titled Multiple unit artificial retina chipset to aid the visually impaired and enhanced holed-emitter CMOS phototransistors, received several Fight-for-Sight and NSF grants, as well as a Merrill Lynch Innovations award. The technology is now helping the blind see. And in helping students see, Dr. E won the Tanner award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, as well as an honorary membership in the American Society of Physics Teachers. His fine art photography has received well over a billion (>1,000,000,000) views. The Wall Street Journal: After winning (the Merrill Lynch Innovations Grant Contest for an artificial retina for the blind titled Multiple unit artificial retina chipset to aid the visually impaired and enhanced holed-emitter CMOS phototransistors), he got to tour the New York Stock Exchange. Dr. McGucken caught the entrepreneurial bug. Eventually, he launched an internet company devoted to his longtime passions: writing and classical literature. . .