Vol. 52, No. 1, Anniversary Papers: The Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy at 50 (2007), pp. 58-87 (30 pages) When examining the role of Stoic ethics within Stoic philosophy as a whole, it is ...

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Over 2,000 years ago, the Stoic philosophers from ancient Greece and Rome postulated a reliable method for leading a good life. Their instruction: Become virtuous. Virtue, according to them, is the ...

“Only virtue is lofty and exalted, nor is anything great if it is not also calm.” Thus Seneca the Younger in his essay On Anger, written in (probably) the 40’s A.D. Nearly two thousand years later, ...

(The Conversation) — Stoicism isn’t just a set of ideas; it’s meant to be put into practice. The ancient philosophy is finding new fans through online communities. Perhaps it’s not so surprising. The ...

In her brilliant new book, The Cosmopolitan Tradition, Martha Nussbaum argues for an even more thrilling vision: the whole biosphere conceived and treated as a “cosmic city,” in which humans carefully ...