List: Stoicism | Curated by Douglas C. Bates

May 8, 2024
18 stories
Stoicism
Quentin Septer
How to Create Your Own PhilosophyHow Marcus Aurelius created his own philosophy, and how you can do the same.
May 5, 2024
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May 5, 2024
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EthicAL
How They’re Destroying Stoicism: Jordan Peterson And The IndividualistsIndividualism will mark the end of every single one of us. Yet still we continue to feast on it.
Nov 7, 2023
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Nov 7, 2023
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Stoicism — Philosophy as a Way of Life
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A Stoic Perspective
What does the city of the Stoic sages look like? Deciphering Zeno’s RepublicIn Zeno’s Stoic Republic, there are no temples, no money and incest is forbidden. Yet it is a founding work of Stoicism.
Jun 9, 2023
Jun 9, 2023
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The Sophist
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Steven Gambardella
The Stoic SelfReconstructing Modern Stoicism From the Inside Out
May 31, 2023
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May 31, 2023
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Douglas C. Bates
What Do the Stoics Mean by “Live According to Nature”?Chrysippus, Zeno, and Epictetus on what it means to live according to nature
Apr 26, 2023
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Apr 26, 2023
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Douglas C. Bates
How Stoicism Led Epictetus to Be Thrashed by a StrangerThe Consequences of the Dichotomy of Control
Mar 28, 2023
Mar 28, 2023
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Purposeful Life
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Eric S Burdon
What Is So Bad About Stoicism?It’s popular, it has big names supporting it, and it’s a philosophy to avoid.
Mar 7, 2023
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Mar 7, 2023
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Inserting Philosophy
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Douglas Giles, PhD
Calmly Resisting the Fad of StoicismThe Pet Rock of self-improvement
Feb 28, 2023
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Feb 28, 2023
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Gage Greer
The Self-Help Advice of Ryan Holiday is More Existentialist than StoicIts all got to do with Zeus and freedom
Nov 3, 2022
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Nov 3, 2022
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Practical Rationality
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Gregory Sadler
A Curious Passage From Epictetus’ Enchiridionwhat does does chapter 27 actually mean?
Oct 13, 2022
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Oct 13, 2022
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Stoicism Has Always Been Hackneyed Centrist PropagandaFrom the amoral legalisms of ancient Rome to self-help rationalizations of consumer capitalism
Jan 25, 2022
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Jan 25, 2022
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Figs in Winter
What, if any, is the essence of Stoicism?Are there some fundamental ideas in Stoicism that, if we let go of them, we are not doing Stoicism anymore?
Aug 17, 2022
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Aug 17, 2022
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Figs in Winter
Book Review: Beware of the dark side of StoicismAs anyone who cares at all about science fiction, fantasy, or even just pop culture knows, the Star Wars universe is characterized by a…
Sep 17, 2019
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Sep 17, 2019
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Figs in Winter
The Vietnam War, Tonkin, and the alleged Stoicism of James StockdaleThe day is August 2nd, 1964. The destroyer USS Maddox has been sent on a mission near the coast of North Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tonkin…
May 31, 2021
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May 31, 2021
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Better Humans
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Mentalcodex | Julfi
Stoicism is Bullsh*tMaybe it is the key to success, as everyone tells us? Or just another advanced way to make you swallow self-help pills.
Mar 28, 2022
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Mar 28, 2022
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Douglas C. Bates
The Stoicism ScamExposing a Colossal Bait and Switch Trick
Sep 9, 2022
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Sep 9, 2022
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A Stoic Perspective
Was Marcus Aurelius really a Stoic philosopher? No, according to this HistorianHere is the review of the controversial book of Pierre Vesperini on Marcus Aurelius
Jan 19, 2020
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Jan 19, 2020
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