More Than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age

''This groundbreaking study provides a much-needed  philosophical framework for those practising mindfulness  as well as a call to recover the pragmatic and therapeutic dimensions of philosophy.'' - Stephen Batchelor, author of After Buddhism and Secular BuddhismModern readers tend to think of Buddhism as spending time alone meditating, searching for serenity.  Stoicism calls to mind repressing our emotions in order to help us soldier on through adversity. But how  accurate are our popular understandings of these traditions? And what can we learn from them without either buying in  wholehearte
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