
Become more Stoic. Build resilience and virtue with ancient philosophy.
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Today’s letter is from our new course on the philosophy of Cynicism in Stoa.
We can learn a lot about ourselves by how we respond to the praise of others. Are you indifferent to it? Does it fill you with pride? Or does the positive...
Are we blank slates? Or does the mind come pre-furnished?
The Stoics said blank. Aetius describes a newborn soul as a sheet of paper waiting to be written on. Every idea you have got there through experience. Plato said the opposite. Your...
Most people who say values are just opinions don’t actually believe it. They have values. They defend them. They just save the skepticism for everyone else.
That’s C.S. Lewis’s charge in the second chapter of The Abolition of Man. Caleb an...
We saw the letter was signed Lampros and adorned with his crest and his motto: PATIENCE IS MINE.
Epictetus encouraged his students to “persist and resist.” The slogan is also translated as “bear and forbear.” In other words, philosophers...
Caleb and Michael both saw the film. This is a proper review.
Caleb and Michael share what they think and work through what lands and what doesn’t.
Don’t worry this is our last bit of Odyssey content for sometime.
(00:00) Introduction: A...
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I study and write about how Stoicism and ancient philosophy can improve our lives.
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