Only now, or in recent months, have people started to recognise the impact of Covid on mental health. This is the unseen outcome from restrictions to personal and collective freedoms, from financial stresses, and here in the U.K. from a… Read More ›
Epictetus
Significant Quotations: #2 Only the educated are free
Epictetus was a Greek philosopher, a Stoic, who freed himself from slavery by his intelligence and use of his mind. The educated are free because they can free their “bonds” and use their minds to question, challenge, explore thoughts, theories… Read More ›
Flummox Friday: Epictetus WAS a Buddhist! Part 2
My previous post in this series ended with stating my belief of major overlaps between Buddhism and Stoicism. To be quite specific: • The goal of Buddhism is Nirvana, defined as the ultimate happiness and the end of suffering. •… Read More ›
The Full Flummox: #5 Was Epictetus A Buddhist?
Am I a Buddhist? I try hard to be, but unlike my Buddhist wife I was raised in a Methodist family in working class Northern England. She was born and raised in Kathmandu so the “path” of being a Buddhist… Read More ›
A Flummox of Philosophers: #5 The Stoics
Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus: it sounds like the legendary forward line of Best, Law, Charlton from the 1960s Manchester United team, or if you are American …. Montana, Rice, Craig! These sporting trios inspired, excited, and set standards that others… Read More ›
A Flummox of Philosophers: #2 The Presocratics
An ongoing series of short posts about schools of philosophy and individual thinkers through the ages. Some of them I briefly studied during my psychology degree, others I have considered more recently in retirement and old age. This is NOT… Read More ›
The Two Doctors 
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