Practical philosophy | Existential & Stoic
Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison is a provocative work for anyone leaning into Stoicism to help redress some of the changes to the way we think about ourselves …
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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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