Greetings! An essay I wrote on Chrysippus, one of the influential early Stoics, appeared on the 3 Quarks Daily site this week. Here is a link. On a separate note, anyone going to Stoicon-X in New York next week? Here is a link to more information. Donald Robertson, Bill Irvine, and Massimo Pigliucci will be…
A new gig
Dear readers, I apologize for my absence, but I have been busy with a new writing gig at 3 Quarks Daily. I have had a monthly column there since the summer. Somehow it has taken up a lot of my time, but I love it. I had been feeling a little limited on this blog…
Stoicism for crises
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,…
Musonius Rufus on the good life at home and at work
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.
A Stoic response to the digital onslaught
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…
Stoic philosophy as art and medicine
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…
