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How to Treat Others

How to Treat Others

How to treat others is a discourse that shows us the right way to see those around us. They’re our kin and so are we of the gods.

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How to Be Content

How to be content. “For he is free for whom all things happen in accordance with his choice, and whom no one can restrain.” Epictetus

How to be content is a journey via the gods to learn to live in accordance with nature. It teaches us to be free and accept fate.

Benny Voncken 17 September 202317 September 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

On Our Judgment

On Our Judgment “It is necessary for you to become a student, that creature which every one laughs at, if you really desire to make an examination of your judgments.” Epictetus

On Our Judgment shows how we can discover what is right or wrong. This Discourse by Epictetus teaches us to find the truth and accept fate.

Benny Voncken 10 September 202315 September 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

Stoicism – A Stoic Short

A Stoic Short: Stoicism

Stoic Shorts: Stoicism. This article tells you want Stoicism is about in under 500 words. It shows its key concepts and a brief history.

Benny Voncken 31 August 20235 September 2023 Stoic Shorts No Comments Read more

What We Should Devote Our Time To

What We Should Devote Our Time to. “If we had applied ourselves as heartily to our own work as the old men at Rome do to their schemes, perhaps we too might have achieved something.” Epictetus

What we should devote our time to focuses on the difference between the externals and internals. Can we learn from those who chase careers?

Benny Voncken 20 August 202320 August 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian 1 Comment Read more

What We Belong To

What We Belong To. Chapter 9

What we belong to reflects on Book 1.9 of the Discourses of Epictetus. How can this definition free us and allows us to live with Nature.

Benny Voncken 15 August 202315 August 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

Why We Need Virtue to Make Progress

Why We Need Virtue to Make Progress

Why we need virtue to make progress shows us the dangers of relying on only on aquired skills, while forgetting what truly matters.

Benny Voncken 6 August 20236 August 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

How to Find the Truth

How to Find the Truth

How to Find the truth: it’s a deep dive on Book 1.7 of Epictetus’s Discourses. Where lies our responsibility to finding the truth.

Benny Voncken 30 July 202330 July 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian 1 Comment Read more

How to View the World: The Grateful Observer

How to View the World: The Grateful Observer

How to view the world and become a grateful observer. This post is based on the discourse On Providence by Epictetus: Book 1, Chapter 6.

Benny Voncken 23 July 202323 July 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

How to Find Our Nature: Entropy and Stoicism

How to Find Our Nature: Entropy and Stoicism

How to find our nature looks at the role entropy plays in the universe. By examining it, we can learn how to live in accordance with Nature.

Benny Voncken 8 July 20238 July 2023 Reflections No Comments Read more
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