Stoic Meditations

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324. Wisdom as a better filter to examine your life Mar 18, 2019

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Seneca provides us with one of the best definitions of wisdom. Let's see what it means, and how to apply it to our daily life.

323. Marcus Aurelius and the chocolate cake Mar 15, 2019

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Marcus Aurelius exhorts us to not just do it, but slow down, think about it, and then see if we really want to do it.

322. Stoicism and war Mar 14, 2019

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Seneca says it no uncertain terms: it is not wisdom that contrives arms, or walls, or instruments useful in war; nay, her voice is for peace, and she summons all mankind to concord.

321. The three parts of philosophy Mar 13, 2019

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Seneca summarizes the reasons why to live a good life (the domain of Ethics) one has to learn how to reason well (Logic) and how to better understand the world (Physics).

320. Concern yourself with careful living Mar 12, 2019

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Seneca criticizes the tendency of some philosophers to spend a lot of time trying to develop more careful ways of speaking, at the expense of figuring out more careful ways of living.

319. Here's your top priority in life Mar 11, 2019

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Seneca says that it causes far too much discomfort to the ears of others to be recognized as a learned person. Better for us and everyone else to be recognized as a good person.

318. In order to learn something new you need to forget what you think you already know Mar 08, 2019

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Epictetus advises his students, and all of us, to drop our preconceptions and actually open our minds to new notions. Try to practice that the next time you engage in a "conversation" on social media.

317. Seneca criticizes the institution of war Mar 07, 2019

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In a rather forceful passage Seneca makes a strong political statement, referring to Roman imperialism as "sacrilege on a grand scale." Unfortunately, two millennia later, we still honor that sort of sacrilege, which flies in the face of the virtue of justice and the concept of cosmopolitanism.

316. Wealth doesn't make you a better person Mar 06, 2019

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Seneca constructs another logical argument to make the point that wealth is not an intrinsic good. Rather, it is how it is used that can be good or bad. Know any virtuous billionaires, by chance?

315. Chance events are not good for you Mar 05, 2019

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Seneca builds a simple argument to show that random events, like winning a lottery, are actually not good for you, despite appearances to the contrary.

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