Keep track of how well you respond to the challenge, even using a self-scoring rubric, and when you judge the challenge to be over give yourself a thorough evaluation. When something happens that is not according to your plans, like, you know, being stuck for months in your house because of a pandemic, reformulate the situation in your mind as a challenge issued to you by the universe. Then there is William Irvine’s The Stoic Challenge, which uses a crucial tool in Stoicism - what modern psychologists call the framing effect - to change the way we think about setbacks.
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Yes, the past few years have seem quite a number of new entries! I’d start by mentioning Donald Robertson’s How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, a philosophical biography of Marcus Aurelius, using key moments in the emperor’s life to introduce readers to the principles and practice of Stoicism, updated on the basis of the author’s experience as a cognitive behavioural therapist. The first group organizes the annual Stoic Week and Stoicon events, and has been fostering a number of local, smaller “Stoicon-X” gatherings the second one has the goal of helping people create local “Stoas,” connecting in person, as much as it is currently possible because of Covid, of course.Īre there any new books about Stoicism that stand out for you as particularly interesting?
The major Stoic interest group on Facebook now has over 82,000 members, and a number of other such groups have sprung up either for people interested in practising Stoicism locally (Italy, France, Portugal, Brazil, India, etc.), or for those wishing to pursue particular aspects or applications of the philosophy (Stoicism and the military, politically progressive Stoicism, and of course Stoic dating!).įinally, there has been the deliberate, concerted effort of a relatively small number of people, largely coalescing around two organizations: Modern Stoicism and the Stoic Fellowship. Third, for all the negative comments we can rattle out about social media, they are making it much easier to discover new ideas and especially to share them with others. People need some sort of ethical compass to live and perhaps even thrive through these sorts of things. Although our focus currently is on a pandemic, we shouldn’t forget that we still face the possibility of climate collapse, are under the constant threat of nuclear Armageddon, and we keep experiencing dramatic political upheavals and civil unrest. This is the situation we are living now, in the second decade of the 21th century. Second, Stoicism originated and became popular - back during the Hellenistic period - at a time of turmoil, where society was changing in dramatic ways, and people felt they had no control over what was happening. So it is no surprise that at a time when mainstream religion is losing its appeal people turn to secular or at least theologically neutral approaches to living a good life. Someone should do a sociology thesis on this! My guess is that it has to do with a combination of factors.įirst off, Stoicism is a solid philosophy of life, analogous to, say, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism.
Why do you think Stoicism is proving so popular? It’s over four years since I interviewed you about Stoicism, and there have been quite a few new books published on this topic since then.
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