Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (November 22, 2020)

Hello there,  Diogenes Laertius was a biographer and wrote extensively about the lives and philosophies of the ancient Greek philosophers. The book of his we have today is the translation Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, which contains a lot of the information we have about the predominant philosophers of ancient Greece (which was in Ionia; a region on the central […]

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (November 15, 2020)

Hello there,  For this week’s exercise, I will look for inspiration from Epictetus’ Discourses. This is II 1.21: “It will even do to socialize with men of good character, in order to model your life on theirs, whether you choose someone living or someone from the past.” We are all human beings; fatally flawed…full of emotions…primitive more often than we […]