Anger Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca in the first century CE. Seneca wrote: …anger is a temporary madness, and that even when justified, we should never act on the basis of it because, though

A Little Stoicism Is A Superpower - Guard Your Mind. You will be assailed daily with forces and arguments that will attempt to hijack your reason and emotion. A short discussion about taking charge of

Philosophy Content on Hive. Listening to the 3Speak team today on Twitter got me fired up and enthused about the potential and importance of everything being done here. You can listen to the broadcast

Reading for the 2nd time Found this book I bought a few years ago on my book stack and started to read it again. It’s a great work by author Ryan Holiday who studied the ancient wisdom of the stoics and

Source - On the matter of Stoics qua Dialectics - "[Humans] are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible, else

That Fateful Day Imagine that you were told that you had only one more day to live. You received a phone call informing you that you had an extremely rare condition that was indisputably going to take

Inspired to Art by Epictetus: The first and most necessary topic in philosophy is that of the use of moral theorems, such as, "We ought not to lie."

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The Two Hellenistic Schools of Philosophy - Epicureans and Stoics As The Principles of Happiness Image Source In making a recognizable proof between the incomparable good and the preeminent pleasure, Aristotle