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Article will be available on Thursday, August 13th, 2020

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Thursday, August 13th, 2020

Coping with life’s challenges

Feature || MARC EPSEN

No matter how good our life is at the moment, we can fully expect life to throw challenges at us sooner or later. Who would have thought last year that a large number of us would all be working from home for months on end?

Article will be available on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Stoicism and the art of friendship

Feature || CHUCK CHAKRAPANI

A curious philosophy

Stoicism is a curious philosophy. At its core is the strong conviction that we need nothing and need no one to be happy. Epictetus clearly summarizes this conviction.

Article will be available on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Friendships in hard times

Feature || MEREDITH KUNZ

Living in challenging times

We are living in challenging times. As Covid-19 continues to ravage wide sections of the globe, many of us are experiencing social isolation, and much worse.

Article will be available on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Preparing for hard times

Feature || FLORA BERNARD

Two types of holidays

There are at least two types of holidays we can experience. One consists of maintaining the usual activity that we have during the year, replacing work with leisure. But the spirit is the same: filling the day with things to do or social relationships.

Article will be available on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

The anti-puppet mindset

Feature || JONAS SALZGEBER

We are puppets on strings

If a person gave away your body to some passersby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled—have you no shame in that?

(Epictetus, Enchiridion, 28)

Article will be available on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Is there a case for God?

Feature || KAI WHITING

Ancient Stoics talked a lot about God or gods. But who is this Stoic God? Does the Stoic God even remotely resemble what we mean by God (in a Judaeo-Christian sense)? In this miniseries, Kai Whiting explores these questions.

Chuck Chakrapani, Editor.

Article will be available on Friday, September 25th, 2020

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Friday, September 25th, 2020

Rise to the work of a human being

Feature || SHARON LEBELL

In Northern California, where I live, we can’t go outdoors because the air is fouled with noxious smoke from nearby wildfires and the countless other fires ravaging California, Oregon, and Washington State. A few days ago, the temperature outside was 115 degrees.

Article will be available on Friday, September 25th, 2020

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Friday, September 25th, 2020

Manage your expectations

Feature || JONAS SALZGEBER

We act surprised by what happens

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That’s all you need to know. Nothing more. Don’t demand to know ‘why such things exist.’ Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather leftover from work. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.50)

Article will be available on Friday, September 25th, 2020

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Friday, September 25th, 2020

Think like a Stoic, change your brain

Feature || MEREDITH KUNZ

Turning ourselves into better humans

The study of how to turn ourselves into better humans sometimes suffers from a lack of “hard evidence.” I am a science writer, and I always look for quantitative as well as qualitative data when evaluating any practice or behavior.

Article will be available on Friday, September 25th, 2020

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Friday, September 25th, 2020

Practice political civility

Feature || ERIK RANKIN

Political civility

Politics in a modern world can often feel like a gladiator sport - like combatants, but armed with rhetoric that is designed to cause harm.

Article will be available on Friday, September 25th, 2020

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Friday, September 25th, 2020

Reap the benefits of philolosphy

Feature || FLORA BERNARD

How to be with the world we live in

You’ve probably heard of VUCA before, to describe the kind of world we are living in - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous. Considering what we’re going through now with the pandemic, these words are taking on new meaning and it is becoming increasingly difficult to see clearly, clarify our thoughts and decisionmaking. This is why we urgently need philosophy.

Article will be available on Friday, September 25th, 2020

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Friday, September 25th, 2020

Why Stoicism Needs Updating

Feature || PIOTR STANKIEWICZ

One of the attractions of Stoicism is that its main ideas have withstood the test of time. However, the peripheral ideas and what the ancient Stoics believed to be the foundation of Stoicism have been challenged by many. In recent times, among others, Lawrence Becker (New Stoicism), Massimo Pigliucci (Stoicism 2.0) and myself (Stoic Minimalism) have written about this. Piotr calls his version ‘reformed Stoicism’, and presents his thoughts in this series of articles.

Chuck Chakrapani, Editor.

Article will be available on Friday, September 25th, 2020

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Friday, September 25th, 2020

Is there a case for God? Part 2

Feature || KAI WHITING

Ancient Stoics talked a lot about God or gods. But who is this Stoic God? Does the Stoic God even remotely resemble what we mean by God (in a Judaeo-Christian sense)? In this miniseries, Kai Whiting explores these questions.

Chuck Chakrapani, Editor.

Article will be available on Friday, October 30th, 2020

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Friday, October 30th, 2020

Focus on radical caring

Feature || SHARON LEBELL

Be a citizen of the world (Epictetus, Discourses, 1.9) is an oft-quoted phrase. Other translations express this teaching as “citizen of the universe,” or “citizen of God.” However stated, there is a lot packed into this short assertion.

Article will be available on Friday, October 30th, 2020

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Friday, October 30th, 2020

Focus on simple living

Feature || JONAS SALZGEBER

Living simply

Is it not madness and the wildest lunacy to desire so much when you can hold so little? (Seneca, Consolation to Helvia, 10)