StoicSpirit

StoicSpirit is a small collage of essays about how various philosophical elements of the Ancient Stoa might impact upon our own lives here a...

Years back I took a graduate course in Moral Theology and I learned that ethics are generated by the community (of a given people or culture...

Occasionally the question is asked as to why "bad things happen to good people?" And usually accompanying this question comes anot...

Many of the great Stoic thinkers, like Seneca, were quite down-to-earth and talked in a universal language that holds meaning for most of us...

"To be concerned with happiness as an end, the Stoics argue, is to be concerned with virtue in the sense of what a person can bring abo...

"I do not need to be told that all virtues are fragile in the beginning and acquire toughness and stability in time." [Moses Hadas...

"More significant was the emphasis the Stoics placed on the essential kinship of all men through their participation in divine reason, ...