We all have vices. Everyone. They range on a spectrum, of course, from either having three packs of sugar in our coffee all the way up to mainlining heroin. In the Stoic context and for our purposes here, there is… Read More ›
Reason
Your Life: Habit or Freedom?
A friend once asked me, “With all the years you’ve studied the mind and its functions, why have you not written a book? Especially since you love to write?” I could have given him a dozen different answers, but what… Read More ›
Don’t Believe. Understand. Then Do.
Since the time of the Roman Stoics, philosophy has generally been turned into a field inhabited solely by intellectuals that like using multi-syllabic words, writing almost incomprehensible texts that only their academic friends could understand (I’m looking at you Hegel.)… Read More ›
2+2=4, Not Fish
In the writings of the ancient Roman Stoics, there is much talk about God (Zeus), and the gods, having designed humans, utilizing their divine reason to give the same to us. The Stoics put forth that since we were created… Read More ›
