Beyond the Individual: An Interview with Will Johncock – Episode 64
An interview with Will Johncock, author of Beyond the Individual: Stoic Philosophy on Community and Connection.
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20 of 64 episodesExploring Encheiridion 21 – Episode 63
Set before your eyes every day death and exile and everything else that looks terrible, especially death. Then you will never have any mean...
A Conscious Cosmos – Episode 62
The doctrine that the world is a living being, rational, animate and intelligent, is laid down by Chrysippus in the first book of his treati...
Exploring Encheiridion 20 – Episode 61
Keep in mind that what injures you is not people who are rude or aggressive but your opinion that they are injuring you. So whenever someone...
Remembering Dirk Mahling – Episode 60
Let your every action, word, and thought be those of one who could depart from life at any moment. (Meditations 2.11) I cannot find a more f...
Exploring Encheiridion 19 – Episode 59
You can always win if you only enter competitions where winning is up to you. When you see someone honored ahead of you or holding great pow...
Exploring Encheiridion 18 – Episode 58
Whenever a raven croaks ominously, don’t let the impression carry you away, but straightaway discriminate within yourself, and say: “None of...
Exploring Encheiridion 17 – Episode 57
Keep in mind that you are an actor in a play that is just the way the producer wants it to be. It is short, if that is his wish, or long, if...
Modern Stoic Fallacy #1 – Episode 56
The Missing Evidence is Evidence I recently decided to start covering Modern Stoic Fallacies periodically. I have been combatting some of th...
Exploring Encheiridion 16 – Episode 55
Whenever you see someone grieving at the departure of their child or the loss of their property, take care not to be carried away by the imp...
Exploring Encheiridion 15 – Episode 54
Keep in mind that you should always behave as you would do at a banquet. Something comes around to you; stretch out your hand and politely t...
Exploring Encheiridion 14 – Episode 53
If you want your children and your wife and friends to survive no matter what, you are silly; for you are wanting things to be up to you tha...
Exploring Enchiridion 13 – Episode 52
If you want to make progress, don’t mind appearing foolish and silly where outward things are concerned, and don’t wish to appear an expert....
Breakfast with Seneca: An Interview with David Fideler – Episode 51
This interview of David Fideler covers his 2021 book titled, Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living. His book provides a...
Being Better: An Interview with Kai Whiting and Leonidas Konstantakos – Episode 50
This interview of Kai Whiting and Leonidas Konstantakos covers their 2021 book titled, Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living In. T...
The Festival of Life – Episode 49
Our situation is like that at a festival. Sheep and cattle are driven to it to be sold, and most people come either to buy or to sell, while...
The Winds of Fortuna – Episode 48
The wise person is still not harmed by the storms of life—poverty, pain, and the rest. For not all his works are hindered but only those tha...
The Religious Sentiment of Marcus Aurelius – Episode 47
Everything suits me that suits your designs, O my universe. Nothing is too early or too late for me that is in your own good time. All is fr...
The Religious Sentiment of Seneca – Episode 46
Seneca’s writings reveal a committed Stoic, a pious soul, and an inspirational moral philosopher. Nevertheless, some of his actions and fina...
The Religious Sentiment of Epictetus – Episode 45
If I were a nightingale, I would perform the work of a nightingale, and if I were a swan, that of a swan. But as it is, I am a rational bein...