I found a thread of commonality running from Heraclitus, Seneca, the Rolling Stones, and Cheryl Crow. This message is not exclusive to stoics, but maybe they were the ones who could walk the talk. “If you don’t regard what you have as enough, you will never be happy even if you rule the entire world”….
Few if any rational, informed human on today’s earth will disagree that our waste-producing practices are negatively impacting our earth. Ocean plastic (UN), contaminated water (Guardian and Consumer Reports), dirty air (WHO), and littered streets tell a sad tale – not even mentioning the micro-elements and forever chemicals (The Conversation) found in every corner of…
Druids … did they exist? who were they, and what did they do? Where did they come from and where did they go? Answering those questions, if possible, will take time – a true deep dive. I quickly found learning about druids is not as easy as reading Wikipedia, or any other text (popular or…
In a recent Wikipedia serach, a definition of Stoicism came back with this phrase: Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.[1] The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to achieving it with a life spent practicing certain virtues in everyday life such as…
Philosophically, one can dive as deep as one wants on human perception vs reality. In a world filled with human engineered and binary coded sensors, the physical world (reality) seems scientifically ‘known’. I am not confident with that knowledge. I propose a distinction between ‘earth’s reality’ and ‘human’s knowledge of earth’s reality’ (regardless of scientific…
Immanuel Kant can be a hard read (Bio Wikipedia). His work is complex and translations into English are challenged. A newly found application / website, Blinklist, simplified and commented on a couple of Kant’s statements that merit deeper thought. The statement from Kant Great minds think for themselves. https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/immanuel-kant-quotes-expand-mind Blinklist then commented on that statement…
