Courage Under Fire Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire

Testing Epictetus's Doctrines In a Laboratory of Human Behavior

    • 4.3 • 3 Ratings
    • $4.99
    • $4.99

Publisher Description

"On September 9, 1965, I flew at 500 knots right into a flak trap, at tree-top level, in a little A-4 airplane--the cockpit walls not even three feet apart--which I couldn't steer after it was on fire, its control system shot out.  After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead.  And so help me, I whispered to myself: 'five years down there, at least.  I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.'


"What Epictetus [told] his students was that there can be no such thing as being the 'victim' of another.  You can only be a 'victim' of yourself.  It's all how you discipline your mind."

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
1993
December 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
23
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hoover Institution Press
SELLER
Hoover Institution Press
SIZE
203
KB

More Books Like This

The Collected Works: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave + The Heroic Slave + My Bondage and My Freedom + Life and Times of Frederick Douglass + My Escape from Slavery + Self-Made Men + Speeches & Writings The Collected Works: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave + The Heroic Slave + My Bondage and My Freedom + Life and Times of Frederick Douglass + My Escape from Slavery + Self-Made Men + Speeches & Writings
2013
Beautiful Souls Beautiful Souls
2012
Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays
2009
Between Good and Evil Between Good and Evil
2005
Hunting Humans Hunting Humans
1986
Hearts of Darkness Hearts of Darkness
2023

More Books by James B. Stockdale

Courage Under Fire Courage Under Fire
2013
A Vietnam Experience A Vietnam Experience
2013
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
2013
Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton
2013

Customers Also Bought

The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
2019
Lives of the Stoics Lives of the Stoics
2020
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
2019
Discourses and Selected Writings Discourses and Selected Writings
2008
The Art of Living The Art of Living
2013
A Guide to the Good Life A Guide to the Good Life
2008