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Stoicism
The Serenity Prayer is nice — until the missiles come raining down on your city.
Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.
Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.
Though Sun Tzu’s "The Art of War" is a classic military treatise, its advice applies to all manner of conflict.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
“We suffer more often in the imagination than in reality.”
Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?
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Chloé Valdary shares the ancient Stoic principle that can defeat modern despair.
"It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it."
To the Greek philosopher, all of our actions ultimately aim at our own pleasure.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
More than mindless bloodshed, the gladiatorial games were organized sports. Gladiators were treated as world-class athletes, receiving superior diets and medical care.
Commodus lived the anti-Stoic life, pursuing lust, narcissism, and self-indulgence.
If Rome was not built in a day, why do you think you can be?
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
Modern applications of Stoicism show up in unexpected places, from the latest techniques in psychotherapy to texts on Christian theology.
From boosting empathy to improving therapy, virtual reality is poised to change our ideas of the self.