Description (podcaster-provided):
Stoicism is the pursuit of Virtue (Aretê), which was defined by the Ancient Greeks as "the knowledge of how to live excellently," Stoicism is a holistic life philosophy meant to guide us towards the attainment of this knowledge through the development of our character. While many other Stoicism podcasts focus on explaining Ancient Stoicism in an academic or historical context, Practical Stoicism strives to port the ancient wisdom of this 2300-plus-year-old Greek Philosophy into contemporary times to provide practical advice for living today, not two millennia ago. Join American philosopher of Stoicism Tanner Campbell, every Monday and Friday, for new episodes.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Stoic philosophy • Virtue • Rational living • Life purpose • Moral responsibility • Nature and Cosmos • Meditation insights • Personal growth • Death and mortality • Contextual ethicsThis podcast, "Practical Stoicism," is dedicated to exploring the philosophy of Stoicism and translating its ancient wisdom into actionable advice for contemporary life. The show is hosted by Tanner Campbell, an American philosopher of Stoicism, and offers episodes twice weekly. While many other presentations on Stoicism delve into its historical and academic aspects, this podcast focuses on its practical applications, aiming to assist individuals in living virtuously today.
The podcast covers a wide range of topics, reflecting on Stoic concepts such as indifferents, virtue, justice, and rationality. Episodes frequently reference Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations," expanding upon the reflections to provide insights into modern challenges and dilemmas. Discussions often delve into the moral and ethical dimensions of various subjects, from environmental responsibility and social issues like immigration to personal challenges such as fear of death, emotional management, and setting boundaries.
A recurring theme is the importance of aligning one's rational mind with Nature, which Stoicism teaches is the path to virtue and the good life. The podcast stresses the significance of habituating virtuous choices and maintaining focus on one's own actions and character development, rather than being distracted by external opinions or societal pressures. Conversations consistently return to the idea that the key to a fulfilling life lies in maintaining a clear understanding of Stoic principles and practicing them in daily life.
Overall, this podcast serves as a resource for those interested in harnessing Stoic philosophy to improve their personal well-being and conduct, offering guidance on how to live with integrity, purpose, and resilience amidst the complexities of modern existence.
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From Defense to War: A Stoic Response to America’s Rebrand 2025-Sep-12 23 minutes |
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What If It Actually Is My Job? 2025-Aug-22 18 minutes |
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Rhetoric as a Method of Self-Betterment [Interview with Jay Heinrichs] 2025-Aug-04 60 minutes |
Introducing Season 3: Applied Stoicism 2025-Jul-27 14 minutes |
Guest Interview: The Strong Stoic Podcast 2025-Jul-23 69 minutes |
Guest Interview: The Tech Stoic Podcast 2025-Jul-15 61 minutes |
Quick Update: I'm not dead! 2025-Jul-13 5 minutes |
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Is Rape a Stoic Indifferent? 2025-Jun-10 23 minutes |
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Feed Drop: We spend 98% of what we make—Where is it all going 2025-Mar-18 18 minutes |
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The Trailer [Updated August 2024] 2024-Aug-13 6 minutes |
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Ego: The Stoic Perspective (Part 2) 2023-Dec-20 20 minutes |
Ego: The Stoic Perspective (Part 1) 2023-Dec-18 13 minutes |
Understanding the Daimon: Stoicism's Spiritual Compass 2023-Dec-11 17 minutes |
Stoic Compatibilism with Prof. Christopher Gill 2023-Dec-08 44 minutes |
From Complaints to Stoic Wisdom 2023-Dec-06 14 minutes |
Keeping Stoic Focus When Angry 2023-Dec-04 13 minutes |
Beyond Circumstances: Embracing Choice in Stoic Philosophy 2023-Nov-29 14 minutes |
Character And Action In The Face Of Wrongdoing 2023-Nov-28 9 minutes |
Free Will Part Deux 2023-Nov-24 73 minutes |
Free Will: Stop Denying It 2023-Nov-22 23 minutes |
3 Things To Remember Daily 2023-Nov-20 13 minutes |
Wish To Happen What Happens 2023-Nov-17 13 minutes |
Future To Past, Quick As A Flash 2023-Nov-15 15 minutes |
I'm Banning The Dichotomy Of Control 2023-Nov-13 14 minutes |
The Difference Between Wrong and Bad 2023-Nov-10 16 minutes |
The Prokoptôn's Progress 2023-Nov-08 13 minutes |
Virtuous Cities? 2023-Nov-06 14 minutes |
If You Ought, You Kant 2023-Nov-03 62 minutes |
Redefining Pride 2023-Nov-01 11 minutes |
Vicious Halloween Costume 2023-Oct-30 14 minutes |
Heroism Is An Indifferent 2023-Oct-27 17 minutes |
Death And Blame 2023-Oct-25 14 minutes |
SCIDA, Scooby, and Shrooms 2023-Oct-23 12 minutes |
Why Is Virtue The Only Good? 2023-Oct-20 11 minutes |
The Obstacle Isn't The Way 2023-Oct-18 13 minutes |
Can't Touch This (Hegemonikon) 2023-Oct-16 12 minutes |
Why Aren't More People Wise? 2023-Oct-12 14 minutes |
The Impossible Is Vicious 2023-Oct-05 14 minutes |
Bathe Like A Stoic 2023-Sep-27 8 minutes |
On The Corporeality of Virtue 2023-Sep-26 15 minutes |
Can Honest Stoics Be Cruel? 2023-Sep-25 12 minutes |
Find Stoic Philosophy Before Trauma Finds You 2023-Sep-20 10 minutes |
On Obedience to the Universal Will 2023-Sep-19 16 minutes |
What Is A Man's? 2023-Sep-18 10 minutes |
Remove Aversion From All Things 2023-Sep-13 10 minutes |
On Noble Aspirations 2023-Sep-12 10 minutes |
This Is A Serious Philosophy And Podcast 2023-Sep-11 12 minutes |
Introducing Epictetus 2023-Sep-06 19 minutes |
Learning How To Say No 2023-Sep-05 18 minutes |
A Formal & Material Substance 2023-Sep-04 10 minutes |
Would The Ancient Stoics Have Been Against The Mistreatment Of Animals? 2023-Aug-28 16 minutes |
The Blush of Modesty 2023-Aug-22 16 minutes |
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Ratios and Virtue with David Fideler 2023-Aug-18 51 minutes |
On Brawn And Brains 2023-Aug-15 19 minutes |
How Are You Using Your Soul? 2023-Aug-14 8 minutes |
Is Business The Enemy? 2023-Aug-08 13 minutes |
Have You Lifted The Veil? 2023-Aug-07 10 minutes |
Cold Showers Aren't Actually That Useful 2023-Aug-01 19 minutes |
Don't Be Disgusted With Yourself 2023-Jul-31 10 minutes |
Cheese-Eating Books 2023-Jul-25 18 minutes |
For Nature's Benefit? 2023-Jul-24 13 minutes |
On Siren Songs 2023-Jul-18 10 minutes |
Stoic Prayer 2023-Jul-17 11 minutes |
Thankless Philosophers 2023-Jul-11 22 minutes |
Grape Vines Remember Nothing 2023-Jul-10 14 minutes |
In Which I Disagree With Seneca On Love 2023-Jul-04 11 minutes |
All The Things We Can Bring About 2023-Jul-03 13 minutes |
Sweat Beats Ointment 2023-Jun-27 20 minutes |
It's All Nature, Baby 2023-Jun-26 16 minutes |
On Loving Old Age 2023-Jun-06 14 minutes |
Marcus Isn't A Great Teacher 2023-Jun-05 13 minutes |
Fellow Patients (The Importance of Prokoptôn Friends) 2023-May-30 15 minutes |
Reject Disturbing Thoughts (3 Suggestions) 2023-May-29 12 minutes |
Being Warm Is Lame. Wake Up! 2023-May-22 13 minutes |
Pleasure and Joy 2023-May-16 15 minutes |
The Gods Did It All 2023-May-15 12 minutes |
Short But Good, Long But Bad 2023-May-09 10 minutes |
To My Father 2023-May-08 14 minutes |
Maximal Maximus is Maximum 2023-Apr-24 12 minutes |
After All This Time Severus? 2023-Apr-17 8 minutes |
Not Too Much, Not Too Little 2023-Apr-12 9 minutes |
Be Gracious 2023-Apr-10 9 minutes |
Someone To Watch Over You 2023-Apr-05 9 minutes |
Answer Your Texts 2023-Apr-03 9 minutes |
We Almost Died 2023-Apr-03 4 minutes |
Seneca Tragicus and Trauma 2023-Mar-28 15 minutes |
How Are You A Leader? 2023-Mar-27 9 minutes |
Seneca Will Be Watching You 2023-Mar-21 12 minutes |
Grammar Nazis Beware! 2023-Mar-20 4 minutes |
Alone With Bad Men 2023-Mar-14 10 minutes |
Let's Talk About Sextus, Baby 2023-Mar-13 11 minutes |
The Seeds Of Good Advice 2023-Mar-07 8 minutes |
Be The Same Person No Matter What 2023-Mar-06 8 minutes |
Be Ready And Willing To Die 2023-Feb-28 7 minutes |
A Rusticus For The Rest Of Us 2023-Feb-27 9 minutes |
Vapidity vs. Virtue 2023-Feb-21 10 minutes |
Mamma Aurelius 2023-Feb-20 10 minutes |
Do You Have Friends? Real Ones? 2023-Feb-14 10 minutes |
Be Thoughtful And Do Your Own Work 2023-Feb-13 11 minutes |
The College of Stoic Philosophers with Mitch Leventhal 2023-Feb-08 47 minutes |
Choose a sanctuary, then stay put 2023-Feb-07 13 minutes |
An Even Temper, Especially In Conflict 2023-Feb-06 11 minutes |
Keep It Simple, Baby 2023-Feb-05 8 minutes |
When Your Death Is Required Of You 2023-Feb-05 5 minutes |
Don't Let Well-Intentioned People Hold You Back 2023-Feb-04 8 minutes |
Crashing Waves To The Face 2023-Feb-02 10 minutes |
What Do I Do With My Life? This! 2023-Feb-02 5 minutes |
Dying Regret-Free 2023-Feb-01 5 minutes |
On Saving Time 2023-Jan-24 14 minutes |
Wake up Sheeple! 2023-Jan-23 10 minutes |
It's Relationships All The Way Down 2023-Jan-19 15 minutes |
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Delighted? Vexed? You Fool! 2023-Jan-17 17 minutes |
Carpé Momentum? 2023-Jan-16 14 minutes |
(I Think) Epictetus Was Wrong About Books 2023-Jan-14 12 minutes |
This One Is Political 2023-Jan-14 13 minutes |
Not For The Sake Of The Husk 2023-Jan-12 15 minutes |
The Magical Universe Panda of the Stoics 2023-Jan-10 13 minutes |
The Only Evil Faculty Is Your Own 2023-Jan-09 12 minutes |
When Is Violence Appropriate? 2023-Jan-06 12 minutes |
Spy on the Wise 2023-Jan-03 9 minutes |
It's All On You 2023-Jan-02 12 minutes |
The Universal Constant 2022-Dec-30 10 minutes |
Memory Rethought 2022-Dec-29 8 minutes |
Amor Paddle 2022-Dec-28 22 minutes |
Most Are Forgotten Immediately 2022-Dec-27 8 minutes |
Wasting Our Lives Is Not Our Right 2022-Dec-26 12 minutes |
Money and Possessions Be Damned 2022-Dec-22 10 minutes |
Bookless, Breadless, and Threadless 2022-Dec-20 10 minutes |
Stoic Evangalist 2022-Dec-19 15 minutes |
Black Characters and Sheepish Dispositions 2022-Dec-17 9 minutes |
An Orderly Cosmos, or Nah? 2022-Dec-16 10 minutes |
Hey, Over Here! 2022-Dec-13 15 minutes |
Used Philosophy Dealership 2022-Dec-12 13 minutes |
Doing Less, Leaning Uniquely 2022-Dec-10 8 minutes |
All Outcomes Are Fruit 2022-Dec-09 9 minutes |
Maintaining Your Faculties and Soothing the Faculty 2022-Dec-06 18 minutes |
Soul Saturation Point 2022-Dec-05 9 minutes |
Beauty Is Not Beheld 2022-Dec-03 11 minutes |
Living Well 2022-Dec-02 16 minutes |
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Lame Fame 2022-Nov-29 7 minutes |
Which Sort of Stoic are You? 2022-Nov-28 15 minutes |
Don't Be Vicious 2022-Nov-26 7 minutes |
Death Hangs Over Thee 2022-Nov-25 9 minutes |
Become a God in Ten Days 2022-Nov-24 7 minutes |
Human Sameness 2022-Nov-21 8 minutes |
Universal Transmogrification 2022-Nov-19 11 minutes |
Do You Have Reason? Then Use It. 2022-Nov-18 5 minutes |
Two Rules To Live By 2022-Nov-17 8 minutes |
Maintain Objective Sight 2022-Nov-15 5 minutes |
Love Thy Fate 2022-Nov-14 8 minutes |
Indifference 2022-Nov-13 7 minutes |
Bulletproof Self 2022-Nov-12 15 minutes |
Stoic Masculinity vs. Alpha Male Masculinity 2022-Nov-11 12 minutes |
Opinions Cause Us Harm 2022-Nov-10 9 minutes |
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Be Not An Empty Husk 2022-Nov-08 6 minutes |
No Shame in Death 2022-Nov-07 7 minutes |
Stoic or Not, We Are One 2022-Nov-06 6 minutes |
Change is Eternal 2022-Nov-05 12 minutes |
Inner and Outer Sanctums 2022-Oct-29 18 minutes |
Your Pavilion of Virtue 2022-Oct-22 12 minutes |
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Good Humans Accept So They Can Help 2022-Oct-08 9 minutes |
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Throw Away Your Books 2022-Sep-24 9 minutes |
Your Philosophical Tackle Box 2022-Sep-17 14 minutes |
The Task At Hand 2022-Sep-10 9 minutes |
Clean Your Windows 2022-Sep-03 11 minutes |
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Are You Still Paying Attention? 2022-Aug-20 7 minutes |
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How To Act 2022-Jul-23 15 minutes |
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Learn to love that which is natural 2022-Jan-30 7 minutes |
Keeping your mortality and temporality ever in mind 2022-Jan-22 9 minutes |
Deal with surly people as if they were yourself 2022-Jan-13 8 minutes |
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