Join us for the Plato’s Academy Centre virtual event — The Plato’s Academy Centre’s March 11th virtual conference on how to save rational discourse is completely free of charge. Not available? Don’t worry because if you register now you’ll be able to watch videos of all the presentations later, at your leisure. So don’t miss out! Extreme partisanship dominates. You…

Take a look at the new movie about the life of the Stoic philosopher — Is this the Seneca you expected to see on the big screen, or not? The trailer below has just been released for director Robert Schwentke’s long-awaited movie Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes (IMDB). I think John Malkovich is a good choice to play the Stoic philosopher. From what I…

How can we save civility and rational discourse? — The forthcoming virtual conference from the Plato’s Academy Centre is about how Stoicism can help all of us to deal with one of the most frustrating aspects of modern politics by replacing partisan bickering, trolling, etc., with rational and civil discourse. …

We’re excited to announce our new Stoicism — Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast on Substack has already been downloaded by nearly 20k listeners. You’re invited to listen free of charge. You can listen to the podcast free of charge. …

The ancient two-column technique demonstrated by Socrates — Most people have heard of the “Socratic Method”, or “Socratic Questioning”, although few realize how that method was originally used by ancient philosophers. …

Reading Greek Philosophy as Psychotherapy — I’m currently researching the philosophy of the Presocratic philosopher Anaxagoras for a book I’m writing about Socrates. I’m very interested in the therapeutic dimension of Greek philosophy, particularly Stoicism. So I’ve been wondering if Anaxagoras’ philosophy can potentially be read from that perspective. I’m not suggesting that Anaxagoras was a…

How Socrates creeps into the hit Netflix series — There’s an obvious, albeit slightly mangled, reference to one of the famous Socratic paradoxes in episode six (“Quid Pro Woe”) of the Netflix series, Wednesday. Ms Thornhill, the botany teacher and “dorm mom”, played by Christina Ricci, offers Wednesday Addams a beautiful hardback copy of Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein or…

The forthcoming virtual conference from the Plato’s Academy Centre is about how Stoicism, and other Greek philosophies, can help all of us to become better leaders. Whether you’re a CEO, involved in politics, a teacher, a parent, or just interested in the philosophy of leadership — this is for you…

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