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Reading group: Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

Reading Group Elin Lindqvist
Meaning of life Greek & Roman Stoicism Seneca #mortality #time

Last reply Youssef Benali

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10d
Did the Stoics really think all emotions are bad?

Question Elin Lindqvist
Emotions Greek & Roman Stoicism Epictetus Seneca #apatheia #passions

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23d
Founders and Stoicism: real philosophy or corporate self-help?

Discussion Rohan Desai
Virtue & character Greek & Roman Stoicism Seneca #entrepreneurship #stoicism

Last reply Rohan Desai

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29d
Night shifts and Epictetus: the dichotomy of control on a hospital ward

Discussion Elin Lindqvist
Happiness & well-being Greek & Roman Stoicism Epictetus #dichotomy-of-control #stoicism

Last reply Elif Yıldız

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Aug 2026
Seneca

Thinker
Greek & Roman Stoicism

Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist and statesman, born in Corduba in Hispania, who served as tutor and then adviser to the emperor Nero. Ordered to…

c. 4 BCE – 65 CE

2h
Epictetus

Thinker
Greek & Roman Stoicism

Greek Stoic teacher born a slave in Hierapolis in Phrygia, who studied under Musonius Rufus in Rome and, after Domitian expelled the philosophers, taught…

c. 50 – c. 135 CE

2h