Category: Philosophy

I will dedicate this public Q&A to a question I got from Juansaman who is a Patreon supporter. He asked me if it makes sense to be politically active, vote, participate in pacifist strikes or aggressive revolts. After all, Stoicism teaches us not to focus on things that are not in our control. So, how […]

Since many of you asked, I decided to deliver. As a sequel to my video about jealousy, let’s talk about envy. What is envy? How should we handle it? What can we learn from the Stoics in regards to envy? And is it really a bad thing? I’ve previously discussed jealousy and proposed several solutions […]

Because of the success of my earlier video, 7 Stoic Exercises For Inner Peace, I’ve decided to go a bit deeper into each exercise, giving them a bit more intellectual baggage for you to ponder over. I’ll start by explaining the praemeditatio malorum by Marcus Aurelius, which harvests its strength from pessimism. The praemeditatio malorum […]

When we have something we cherish, like a spouse or a friend or a certain status within a group, but we feel threatened of losing it, we experience resentment which we call jealousy. How can we deal with this? This video presents you Stoic solutions for jealousy, A commenter named Omkar Unde2 recently suggested making […]

The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.  Zeno of Citium The ancient Stoics argued that living a virtuous life means “living in accordance with nature”. Now, what did they exactly mean by this? Are we to follow our instincts as animals do? Or Should we live a nature-friendly lifestyle? In this video, […]

You might be wondering; how did the ancient Stoics view love and lust? Were they hopeless romantics or rather cold and distant? Were they pleasure-seekers enjoying polyamory or did they value the duties of marriage? In this video, I will explore lust, love, and Stoicism. So, there’s a big difference between love and lust, although […]

I want to dedicate this video to a question from one of my Patreon supporters named Juansaman, about pride and arrogance in Stoicism. It was quite a detailed question, and enough food for thought to dedicate one video on. Here’s the question: I’m very fond of this philosophy, but I also consider humility a great […]