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Aydyn Neifer · In life, we are dealt roles, we create roles and we assume roles. In this essay, student Aydyn Neifer explores our many roles from a Stoic perspective, drawing primarily from the work of Epictetus.
Meraz Ahmed · Faculty member Meraz Ahmed argues that Stoic philosophical principles can be a guide to better decision making in complex situations. He refers to this as the “Stoic Triage”.
Mark Stary · In this article, faculty member Mark Stary explains the importance of prohairesis in the context of Stoic compatibilism.
Mark Bowen · In this essay, student Mark Bowen explores how Stoic ethics can have a positive influence on those impacted by involvement in warfare.
Carolina Martins · Carolina Martins explains how Stoic principles can have a positive impact in the development of responsible Artificial Intelligence systems.
Don Putnam · Faculty member Don Putnam discusses Heraclitus's fragments in the context of various philosophical questions.
Francesco Gimelli · In this article, student Francesco Gimelli discusses the impact of the pursuit of material wealth on adherence to one's Stoic principles.
Steven Karafit · Student Steven Karafit argues that 21st century Stoics should only utilize genetically modified organisms in very specific circumstances, such as when the use of GMO technology seems to be more rational and just than any of the alternatives.
Nigel Glassborow · Nigel Glassborow explores the significance of Zeno's approach to understanding the Cosmos, in light of the many new scientific approaches for observing and understanding the nature of the Universe.
Miklós Cseszneky · Miklós Cseszneky discusses the important role of the concept of "nature" in Morita Therapy and also to Stoic practitioners.
Dirk Mahling · In this issue, we are posthumously publishing Dirk Mahling's short essay "Contra Exercitia - Against the Exercises," in which he takes issue with the gymnastic approach to Stoic practice, typified by a variety of contemporary stoic life hacks. Originally written as a Facebook post.
Mark Stary · Faculty member Mark Stary describes his adventures in our digital "stacks", with special attention to two old volumes: one focused on the Hymn of Cleanthes, and another a poet's tribute to the Enchiridion.
Ryan Broadfoot · Student Ryan Broadfoot explores the nature of the Stoic God, and how that understanding has enhanced his practice.
Mitch Leventhal · Thought provoking poems are examined through a Stoic lens.
Ryan Broadfoot · Stoicism has been misinterpreted by some as an individualistic philosophy which supports the idea of disengagement from society, but this is far from the truth. Ryan Broadfoot argues that Stoicism calls citizens to action for the common good.
George Nagle · Faculty member George Nagle discusses how Stoicism, from a psychotherapeutic perspective, can help a person overcome persistent shame.
Ian Roth · Student Ian Roth compares some of the best practices of negotiation with classical Stoicism as an applied philosophy. His intention is twofold: To determine in what ways the two are compatible in principle, and to identify how they can supplement and complement one another in practice.
Anthony Aguirre · Faculty member Anthony Aguirre explores what it is to be a Stoic, apart from a mastery of the theoretical precepts.
Mark Stary · Review of "Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life" by A.A. Long
Avilés, César · Hypomnemata written by Cesar Avilés in 2020, while a student in the Marcus Aurelius Program. Compiled and edited in 2021.
Avilés, César · In this reflective essay, Cesar Avilés examines Hierocles’ theory of duty towards what he considers the three most important relationships. In his treatise On Appropriate Acts, he labels them as “kinds of god” and exhorts us to honor them above all other relationships.
Wiegardt, Erik · Mneme, or memory exercises, were very much a part of a classical Stoic's education. What you will find here is an extreme synthesis of the Epictetus' Discourses, organized and composed into a common poetic style, blank verse by Scholarch Erik Wiegardt.
Wiegardt, Erik · This volume by our founding Scholarch focuses on the three fundamental areas of study (topoi) – logic, physics, and ethics - during the period of Classical Stoa, from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius.
Glassborow, Nigel · Nigel Glassborow explains that the Athenian intellectual ethos meant that "every aspect of the teachings of any of the schools of thought were gone over with a fine tooth comb". As such, he continues "the simplicity of the rationale of Zeno's teachings tended to be overlooked."
Glassborow, Nigel · When it comes to the study of Stoicism, discussions often swing back and forth between the use of modern English, Latin, and ancient Greek, and in the process, the original intent of the Athenian Stoics can be overlooked.
Scott Stoddard; David Lundmark · Essays written by two students of the College of Stoic Philosophers. Although they have ended up on the same path of virtue, aretē, their lives began in profoundly different ways. It is only in the intensity of their efforts to follow reason that their stories can be viewed as similar or the same.
Glassborow, Nigel · Practical ruminations on control, determinism and Providence for the practicing Stoic.
Glassborow, Nigel · Hierocles the Stoic suggested that while the animal nature of any species is to look to its own perceived self-interest, especially in matters that relate to survival, as rational and social animals we humans also have a need to include in our purview the interests of all the other 'circles' of society that we are a part of, including that of the world and the Cosmos.
Glassborow, Nigel · Nigel Glassborow argues that Zeno's Stoicism remains relevant to contemporary society.
Glassborow, Nigel · Nigel Glassborow examines where the rationale of Zeno's original Stoic metaphysics takes us when considered against knowledge obtained from the modern sciences.