In a sceptical age of relativism, Living Stoicism revives philosophical naturalism: we belong to Nature, and virtue is practical knowledge of how to live.https://livingstoicism.com/en-gbhttps://livingstoicism.com/2025/11/14/in-defence-of-stoic-physics/https://livingstoicism.com/2025/11/14/in-defence-of-stoic-physics/The Greek four elements as phase states—solid, liquid, gas, plasma—and why Stoic physics still maps onto empirical observation of matter.Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:23:54 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2025/02/24/james-daltrey-on-stoicism-determinism-and-fate/https://livingstoicism.com/2025/02/24/james-daltrey-on-stoicism-determinism-and-fate/Keith P. Myers on why calling the Stoics ‘determinists’ misses the point: they denied abstract laws, so modern determinism does not fit Stoic physics or fate.Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:03:21 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2025/01/29/james-daltrey-on-virtue-the-use-of-indifferents/https://livingstoicism.com/2025/01/29/james-daltrey-on-virtue-the-use-of-indifferents/Keith Myers on Stoic indifferents: externals are the material virtue works on—no marble, no sculpture; virtue is skilled use of what lies outside us.Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:51:47 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2024/05/25/on-what-is-and-what-is-not-up-to-us/https://livingstoicism.com/2024/05/25/on-what-is-and-what-is-not-up-to-us/Epictetus Discourse 1.1 on what is eph’hemin: reading the Enchiridion’s opening through the fuller argument in the Discourses compiled by Arrian.Sat, 25 May 2024 18:55:14 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2024/04/03/socrates-didnt-kno-nuffink/https://livingstoicism.com/2024/04/03/socrates-didnt-kno-nuffink/Why ‘I know that I know nothing’ is a modern paraphrase—and what Plato’s Socrates actually claimed about wisdom, ignorance, and the Delphic oracle.Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:01:56 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2024/03/30/some-incomplete-notes-on-the-discussion-of-providence-or-atoms-in-marcus-aurelius/https://livingstoicism.com/2024/03/30/some-incomplete-notes-on-the-discussion-of-providence-or-atoms-in-marcus-aurelius/Notes on Marcus Aurelius’s ‘providence or atoms’: Stoic physics, providence as causal order, and what the atomic alternative really means.Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:52:40 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/19/stoic-cosmology-and-ethics/https://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/19/stoic-cosmology-and-ethics/How Stoic ethics grows from their cosmology: humans as social, language-using animals seeking what benefits themselves and the common good.Fri, 19 May 2023 21:15:43 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/17/the-scientific-god-of-the-stoics/https://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/17/the-scientific-god-of-the-stoics/A Side View reply: why the Stoic god is a scientific, naturalistic cosmology—not mysticism incompatible with modern physics and biology.Wed, 17 May 2023 19:59:25 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/13/what-is-controlling-what/https://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/13/what-is-controlling-what/The Stoic Dichotomy of Control is a modern invention that fails to understand and completely distorts the actual message of Epictetus.Sat, 13 May 2023 19:06:00 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/12/the-enchiridion-or-manual-of-epictetus-by-elizabeth-carter-1758/https://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/12/the-enchiridion-or-manual-of-epictetus-by-elizabeth-carter-1758/Elizabeth Carter’s authentic 1758 Enchiridion—not the popular internet misattribution—beginning ‘Of things, some are in our power and others not.’Fri, 12 May 2023 19:03:37 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/11/the-hand-page-to-the-handbook-of-epictetus/https://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/11/the-hand-page-to-the-handbook-of-epictetus/A handpage to Epictetus’s Handbook: living well through understanding Nature, the right use of externals, and the pursuit of arete (virtue).Thu, 11 May 2023 18:14:51 GMThttps://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/10/epictetus-enchiridion-explained/https://livingstoicism.com/2023/05/10/epictetus-enchiridion-explained/A close reading of Epictetus’s Enchiridion: why this ‘introductory’ text is advanced, and what ‘up to us’ really means in practice.Wed, 10 May 2023 20:54:51 GMT