William Braxton Irvine and a Guide to the Good Life

William Braxton Irvine is a professor of philosophy at Wright State University in Ohio. He became popular around the world after the publication of two books: A Guide to the Good Life and On Desire: Why We Want What We Want. His work, as a whole, focuses on the values that seem to govern today’s Western world. This philosopher aligns with the Stoic school, a current whose main representatives in antiquity were Zeno, Seneca, and Epictetus. Their main characteristic is the promotion of the principle of exercising control over situations and passions that disturb life. In terms of ethics, the…