Selecting a guide to assist our transformation starts with two questions. What do we want to change and what do we need to change? A stern guide like Seneca can be a great assistance when what we need …
Working through Foucault & Seneca
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism and Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish have loomed large in the last six weeks of writing and studying Stoic philosophy. The method of comparing and contrasting …
Martha Nussbaum a great introduction to philosophical thinking
My journey to Stoic philosophy and beyond can be attributed to being constitutionally inclined to learn in a way that echos Seneca’s advice to contain your philosophy studies to only a few great …
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Cosmic consciousness Stoic freedom
When we take being liberated from enslavement by our emotions and desires as the first freedom Stoicism aims for, in letter 65 Seneca shows us how identifying with the Cosmos is a valuable pathway to …
Consistency & Seneca’s art of living
One characteristic prized by Seneca’s philosophical art of living is consistency in your values, actions and desires. He thought you could achieve that by learning to form good desires and sound …
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Seneca on suicide
Well before you get to Letter 77 in Seneca’s masterpiece, you need to develop an understanding about his views on suicide. The short version is: he notes it as an option that illuminates the freedom …