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STOICISM: Love, Fate and the Problem of Meaning
2 Jun 2026
Picture hand drawn in graphite by The problem with love is that is seams obvious until we ask the question of what is actually means.Today in English, love can mean erotic desire, friendship, family affection, moral concern, religious devotion or…
Stoicism and The Rational Cosmos
11 May 2026
Image hand drawn in graphite by The Rational Cosmos is an invitation to recover Stoicism as a complete discipline of life, thought and action. We begin with human beings as they are vulnerable, dependent, social, rational, limited in knowledge and…
Stoicism... What is Justice.
16 Apr 2026
Picture hand drawn in graphite by Justice in Stoicism really means something very different to what is suggested in modern times. Even though many do not see even that as Justice, Stoicism probably takes a different stance to most modern…
Stoicism and the Failure of Happiness
26 Mar 2026
Picture hand drawn in graphite by Sue DoodlebeeLife is a lottery for every one of us. Even if the universe remains anything but with its all determining causal chain. For us when we measure our desires against what happens it…
Stoicism: Assent and How It Works in Practice
21 Mar 2026
Picture hand drawn in graphite by Sue DoodlebeeIn the Stoic process of assent logic explains what is presented to the mind. Physics explains how the soul functions as a causal system. Ethics explains how judgement results in virtue.Yet all cognition…
Stoicism… Why Virtue Is the Only Good
11 Mar 2026
Picture hand drawn in graphite by You often see me and many other stoics say that Virtue is the only good. There are times that you also hear other well respected stoics say that “there is maybe more that is…
What Stoic Practice Is and How It Works
5 Mar 2026
Picture drawn by Today I want to take you a little deeper into what Stoic practice itself is. Why it is about daily and consistent practice and never about big steps. What actually does it involve and how do we…
The Stoic stance on Trump
7 Feb 2026
Picture drawn in pastels by This is an article that I never expected to be writing and I guess in many ways I have tried to avoid. Many of my subscribers and friends have asked me to do this. The…
Oikeiosis - Natural Impulse to the Human Telos
4 Feb 2026
Picture hand drawn by How Does Oikeiosis Lead Us from Natural Impulse to the Human Telos?Oikeiosis tells us that every living creature arrives already aware of itself and already attached to its own constitution. This initial self awareness supplies the…