The majority of this technical baggage is left aside as Irvine takes us on a journey of what he himself describes as a ‘resolutely practical’ approach to Stoicism. Despite some talk of a ‘life lived in accordance with nature’, there is no mention of ‘indifferent things’, or the distinction between ‘perfect and intermediate duties’.
Irvine does not concern himself with the many varied technical distinctions of Stoic ethical theory. The book is aimed at a popular audience-indeed, at an audience with no more acquaintance with the subject of stoicism than the ideas connoted by the adjective ‘stoical’ itself. Irvine’s A Guide to the Good Life: the Ancient Art of Stoic Joy is not meant to be a scholarly work on Stoicism in the spirit of Brad Inwood or A.
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