Welcome, to Practical Stoicism.
This podcast is for the prokoptôn: the person making moral progress. In Stoic philosophy, a prokoptôn is not a sage and is not expected to be perfect. Sagehood is likely unattainable. What matters is direction, not arrival.
Practical Stoicism rejects popular distortions of Stoicism as emotional suppression, hardship-seeking, ... Show More
Mar 2025
The Illusion of Free Will? (Meditations 3.10)
In this episode, I explore Meditations 3.10, where Marcus Aurelius reminds himself—and us—that we only ever live in the present moment. He urges us to remember three things: life is short, the space we occupy is small, and fame is fleeting. But why does he emphasize this? Because ... Show More
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