Stoicism

Stoicism Does Not Exist

Go ahead and try to bend it

May 4 •

Nietzsche’s Lens: The Decline of Buddhism and Rise of Stoicism

Speculations on a shift from slave to master morality

Apr 21 •

Interest in Buddhism Declines While Stoicism Soars

Are they linked?

Apr 17 •

Is Stoic Practice Really All That Different?

On the common property of the Greek philosophies of life

Mar 29 •

Good Grief: The Psychopathology of the Stoic Attitude About Mourning

Pyrrhonists and Buddhists contra the Stoics

Mar 15 •

Cicero Exposes the Fallacy of Virtue

Virtue cannot be the only good if it’s not even capable of being itself.

Feb 23 •

Health Is Not an Indifferent

The Stoics are wrong.

Feb 18 •

What’s Wrong with the Stoic Dichotomy of Control

Do you think Stoicism is unwarrantedly pessimistic? Think again.

Jan 22 •

Is Buddhism Losing Its Cool?

And why it matters.

Nov 8, 2024 •

How Good and Evil Are Like UFOs

Epictetus Going Down the Slippery Slope

Oct 30, 2024 •

On Having a Hardened Reasoning Faculty

Epictetus discloses what’s wrong with him

Oct 18, 2024 •

In Defense of the Concept of Mind Viruses

Recently Dan Williams on his Substack Conspicuous Cognition made an audacious claim: mind viruses do not exist and the term is not useful.

Sep 26, 2024 •

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