What r/Stoicism is talking about this week

There was a thread a couple of days ago where people in the comments were talking about how a coach could change their life (or harm it). One user talked about how a coach called them "useless"...

Stoicism is often, especially nowadays, seen as a rather “tough” philosophy. When in fact one if its most prominent figures - Marcus Aurelius - was a man of deep piety. For Marcus the whole...

Unfortunately for almost a decade now this wisdom has been lost, abused, disregarded, and walked upon, spitted on on the side walks like the most pathetic that has been disregarded for the longest...

I often think about how much of our suffering comes from the situations we go through and how much comes from our struggle to change things that may not be in our control. Sometimes, we need to...

Sometimes it can seem like there's an unusual concentration of wrong people out there... so confident in their opinions, so full of hypocrisy and regurgitated talking points, so obvious in...

When I first became interested in Stoicism I had the benefit of a couple of excellent Stoic podcasts: The Painted Porch, and Immoderate Stoic. Are there any really good Stoic podcasts being...

I wrote this post for r/askphilosophy a few months ago but I got no reply so I want to post it here in hopes of an answer: I started looking over it again on the SEP page today and while that did...

Sorry for the edgy title. But I never understand it when I see Marcus Aurelius writing about how good nature is. Most things are up to our luck or discipline but I don't like both because there...

On the Firmness of the Wise Man (currently reading the translation by A. Stewart) Anyone who read the dialogue and has a comment on it. Curious to hear your thoughts, and perhaps which parts spoke...

Hello! I've got two works of Seneca to read, for personal enjoyment: the complete Letters on Ethics (Graver & Long) and the shorter Oxford's Dialogues and Essays. I'm assuming Oxford's would be a...