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Dec 1, 1993 · Short Summary: As a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, James Stockdale shot down, captured, and imprisoned for eight brutal years. He used the wisdom of stoicism to survive and grow stronger in prison.
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Feb 1, 2020 · Courage Under Fire Stockdale tells how he discovered Stoicism, midway through his life, as a “gray-haired” thirty-eight year old naval pilot in graduate school at Stanford University.
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Rhinelander explained that its author, Epictetus, was a very unusual man of intelligence and sensitivity, who gleaned wisdom rather than bitterness from his early firsthand exposure to extreme cruelty and firsthand observations of the abuse of power and self-indulgent debauchery.
Sep 1, 2013 · Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior. James B. Stockdale. Hoover Press, Sep 1, 2013 - Philosophy - 32 pages. When physical disability from...
COURAGE UNDER FIRE. ry of Human BehaviorJames Bond Stockdalecame to the philosophic life as a thirt y - e i g h t - y e a r-old naval pi. ot in grad school at Stanford University. I had been in the navy for twenty. years and scarcely ever out of a cockpit. In 1962, I began my second year of studying.
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May 3, 2023 · Courage under fire : testing Epictetus's doctrines in a laboratory of human behavior. by. Stockdale, James B. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Stockdale, James B, Epictetus, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American, Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography ...
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior. James B. Stockdale. Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography...
