Archive - The Stoa Letter

How to treat today

A brief memento mori meditation

22 hrs ago •

The Age of Sirens

Distraction has evolved. Discipline must too.

Jul 24 •

When Being Good at Your Job Makes You a Bad Person (Episode 193)

Role Ethics vs Virtue Ethics

Jul 22 •

and

54:15

Do you know these 10 Stoic ideas?

Do you know these 10 Stoic ideas?

Jul 21 •

Do the external things which fall upon you distract you?

Commentary on Meditations 2.7

Jul 18 •

The Ring of Gyges (Episode 192)

Plato on why even the powerful should be just

Jul 15 •

15:35

Five ways to ruin Stoicism for everyone, including yourself

Stoicism without spirit

Jul 14 •

Therapy vs Philosophy (Episode 191)

Men would rather read philosophy than go to therapy

Jul 8 •

and

54:31

Are Stoics just weak and naive?

The ring of Gyges

Jul 7 •

Do wrong to yourself, do wrong to yourself, my soul

Commentary on Meditations 2.6

Jul 4 •

Seneca On The Creation of Earthquakes (Episode 190)

Movie review time – Seneca hypocrite or sage?

Jul 1 •

47:28

June 2025

Living on borrowed time

Overcoming weak belief

Jun 30 •

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