It has been an eventful, challenging past few months. I have been wondering for a while how Stoicism would help me deal with an actual crisis--but to be honest, I fell short of wishing for a crisis to come so that I could be tested. I’m soft, and it’s the holiday season. Needless to say,…
I'm new at this guest-posting thing, but I wanted to let my readers know that Leah Goldrick at Common Sense Ethics has graciously published a post that I wrote on Musonius Rufus' take on the ideal job and the ideal marriage. The post is here. Her blog is terrific and well worth a bookmark.
What I’m realizing lately is that it’s a good mental exercise to apply a Stoicism overlay to any theme: How would a Stoic react to [x]? I’ve enjoyed reading others analyze such diverse topics as suicide, waiting tables, and Angry Birds. In that spirit of discovery I thought I’d take on technology and our complex relationship to it. Technology…
I mentioned in my last post that I had ordered a copy of John Sellars’ Stoicism (University of California Press, 2006). I’m enjoying it very much, and while I haven’t made much progress yet, I was struck by several things that I thought I would share. Sellars begins his overview of Stoic philosophy by emphasizing…
