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Aristotle: Happiness is an Activity

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous because we are more capable of continuous contemplation

Written on April 24, 2022 at 3:06 pm, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Aristotle, Classical Ethics, ethical egoism, Ethics, Happiness, hedonism, Moral philosophy, Pleasure, Seneca, Stoic, Stoicism, Virtue, virtue ethics

How Can We Make Peace With Death?

By Anya Leonard Death does not concern us,” says the fourth century BC philosopher Epicurus, “because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.” Well, that’s a little easier said than done. The reality is that on top of inevitably pushing up the daisies (life

Written on April 11, 2022 at 2:12 pm, by Anya Leonard

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: Democritus, Epictetus, Epicurus, How Stoicism Can Help, Karen Duff, Marcus Aurelius, Philosophy, Seneca, socrates, Stoicism, Wise Up

A Stoic Skill: Premeditatio Malorum

by Andrew Rattray What makes you nervous? What worries you? We all have something that ties our guts up in knots when we think about having to do it, don’t we? Life is full of these situations, where we find ourselves concerned about what the future holds. Especially now, with the ever-negative deluge of the

Written on February 18, 2022 at 3:51 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Philosophy, Stoicism

Tags: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Premeditatio Malorum, Seneca, Stoicism

The Four Stoic Virtues

by Andrew Rattray What makes a person good? What separates those people who always seem to make the best choices from those who are plagued by their vices? Like so many other philosophies, the Stoics spent significant time and effort establishing their ideas around ethics and virtue to determine what exactly makes a person ‘good’.

Written on February 4, 2022 at 8:07 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Stoicism

Tags: Four Cardinal Virtues, Four Stoic Virtues, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Seneca, Stoicism

What Stoicism Isn’t

by William B. Irvine, Professor of Philosophy, Wright State University Stoicism has gotten a bad rap. People think of the Stoics as emotionless beings—as grim, wooden individuals whose goal in life was to stand mutely and take whatever life could throw at them. This perception, however, is quite mistaken. When we read about the Stoics

Written on November 9, 2021 at 8:08 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Philosophy, Stoicism

Tags: Epictetus, Happiness, Marcus Aurelius, Musonius Rufus, Religion, Seneca, Serenity Prayer, Stoicism, Zeno of Citium

The Differences Between Roman and Greek Tragedy

by Lydia Serrant, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom There is no doubt that the Romans drew a lot from the Greeks. This included their love of theatre. Roman theatre took a while to take hold, but once it did, it was popularised across the Empire and evolved over the centuries. The Romans adopted many of the

Written on September 29, 2021 at 4:28 pm, by Programmer

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Categories: Culture, Theater

Tags: Greek Theater, Greek Tragedy, mythology, Roman Theater, Seneca

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