The Art of Becoming Good
Miskawayh and the Thousand-Year-Old Philosophy of Character, Happiness, and the SoulBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 7m
About this audiobook
There is a version of you that you gave up on somewhere around thirty-five. You decided he was a fantasy, were sensible about it, and moved on.
A thousand years ago in Baghdad, a man decided that was the single most damaging idea a person could hold—and spent sixty years proving it wrong.
His name was Miskawayh. A librarian ruled for years by appetites he was ashamed of, he was no saint. But he worked out in precise detail how human character is built, tested it on himself, and wrote down the method.
The Art of Becoming Good is narrative history that tells the story of that man and his framework.
• Distinguish whether your faults are excess or deficiency—the cures are opposite
• Understand why insight is never enough and what actually changes you
• See why daily company shapes character more than any resolution
This is for anyone who has read philosophy, agreed with it, and gone on behaving exactly as before.
The person you meant to be is still reachable.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Spirituality and Religion
Length8 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 12, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. What the Rich Man Could Not Buy
2Prologue
1412. The Courage of the Counselor
31. The Boy Who Was Nothing
1513. The Mirror
42. The Road to Baghdad
1614. The Man Who Envied Him
53. What the Chancery Taught Him
1715. The Wisdom That Does Not Die
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64. The Master's House
1816. The Eyewitness
75. The Poison He Drank Himself
1917. The Young Genius
86. The Greeks Arrive in Arabic
2018. Faith and the Lamp
97. The Three Rooms of the Soul
2119. The Last Library
108. Can a Man Be Remade?
2220. The Practice
119. The Narrow Road Between
23Epilogue
1210. The Physician of Souls
2421. Author's Note
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