Towards an ecologically stoic 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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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 …
In coming weeks, Beautiful Rich Sage’s posts will look more closely at Seneca’s philosophy of freedom. For Seneca and the Stoics, freedom was an important element of the highest good. For us too, …
To be competent in an art of living that draws on Stoicism requires learning about physics, which is to say the nature of the world. To live in accord with nature you need to have an understanding of …
Seneca is a stoic, writing in the stoic tradition. Yet he always steps outside that tradition when he reaches a divergent conclusion on something important. The most obvious example of this, is his …
A resilience building exercise in Seneca’s Letters asks us to live every day as if it were to complete our life. He says treat each day as if it ends the series of days that adds up to our …
