Essays

The Enchiridion or Handbook of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compil...

This is a summary of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Meditations is essentially a scr...

Henry David Thoreau's essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, is a masterful exploratio...

Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman empire from AD 161-180. He wrote the 12 books of the Medi...

‘Were it not for shadows there would be no beauty.’ In Praise of Shadows is a...

Five classic works of modern analytic philosophy. What is an intention? Kant's Eth...

The empirical sciences make assumptions that they are not themselves capable of justifyin...

The first book in the essays of Seneca deals with good and evil. The dialogue is opened b...

Of a Happy Life is an essay written by Seneca around the year 58 AD. It was intended for ...

The ninth essay from Lucius Annaeus Seneca. The work opens with Serenus asking Seneca for...

On the Shortness of Life was written by Seneca around the year 49AD. He argues that we wa...

Marcia actively mourned the death of her son Metilius for over three years. In Of Consola...

Of Leisure only survives in a fragmentary state. The work concerns the rational use of sp...

A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary...

Arthur Schopenhauers Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit liefern DenkanstoSse zur Corona-Krise....