Cato's Suicide, by Charles Le Brun. Source: Wikicommons/public domain In the Classical World, the old religion privileged ritual over doctrine, and educated people turned instead to philosophy for ...

Feb 20 - As investors try to figure out how best to handle the whirlwind that is Trump 2.0, they should consider embracing two key principles from the Stoic philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome.

(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 ...

When most people hear the word “Stoic,” they picture a stiff upper lip: bottling up emotions, keeping silent about suffering, and pretending not to care. Psychology—and clients I see showing up in my ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual, by Ward Farnsworth (David R. Godine): It is curious that two ...

Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin University. He is part of an AR-funded grant on modern reinventions of the ancient idea of philosophy as a way of life, and is presently working on a book on a ...

Of course, this is selfish—and like most selfish things, also short-sighted. Because this article almost certainly introduced tens of thousands of people to a topic I care about, people who would be ...