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Professor Anthony Long of Berkeley College is perhaps the foremost expert on Stoicism in academia today. In the second part of this talk, he furthe...

Professor Anthony Long, perhaps the world's foremost expert on Stoic philosophy, gives a rare talk in London on the Roman emperor and Stoic philoso...

Stoicism, the ancient Greek philosophy that grew up in Athens in 300BC, would seem to be light years away from modern self-help. The Stoics fasted,...

Here is a response to variablast on the question of why stoicism is not more prevalent in the modern world.

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I lay out my biggest concerns with some of the initial stoic premises.

Stoicism is a philosophy from ancient Greece that teaches people to value logical reasoning and self-control over destructive emotions or urges. Th...

Thesocraticbreed Encourages people to go read Stoicism, and to check out the New Stoa.

Jenkins travels on an inward journey to visit his demon-soul, Takeshawa, who berates him for his capitulation to external pressures, and urges him ...

My PowerPoint slides to a talk I gave at Queen Mary University in London, on how CBT and Positive Psychology have re-invented ancient philosophy fo...

by Erik Wiegardt

This is the final part of my talk, which discusses how CBT promotes Hellenistic virtues and character strengths, even if it doesn't use the rhetori...

In this third part of my talk, I discuss Stoicism and CBT in schools and the army, and how some philosophers have said CBT has looted ancient philo...

This is the second part of a talk I gave at the inaugural Marcus Aurelius birthday symposium in San Diego in April.

This section talks about the ...

This is the first part (of four parts) of a talk Jules Evans gave at the inaugural Marcus Aurelius birthday symposium in San Diego in April. It's a...

Philosophy - A Guide To Happiness: Seneca on Anger

Philosophy - A Guide To Happiness: Seneca on Anger

Philosophy - A Guide To Happiness: Seneca on Anger

Tim Ferriss, the author of the 4-Hour Workweek, talks about a different type of productivity technique, one based on Stoicism. Tim asks that you po...

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by Erik Wiegardt

Major Thomas Jarrett taught the first resilience-training course used by the US Army, during the Second Iraq War. He called it Warrior Resilience T...

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Enjoy this short meditation from Marcus Aurelius Meditations & follow on Twitter for quotes and posters Hi follow Marcus quotes on twitter :) http...

An introduction to some elementary forms of stoic logic, prepared for a high school class.

LYRICS:

There's better men than I sleeping on the streets tonight,

There's wiser ones than me suffering tortures you wouldn't believe.

There's a ...

Practicing voluntary discomfort

Highlights of the conference - pics followed by clips of the talks.

Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to our hosts, Erik and Amiell...