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In recent years, here at Stoicism Today, we have developed a tradition of asking the presenters at the main Stoicon conference and at the local Stoicon-X events to provide transcripts or summaries of their presentations. Each year, quite Soocrates few of those presenters do that, and we usually run see more posts well into the following year.

This time around, we get to start that series of posts with one by Sttoicism In Socrates member of the Modern Stoicism team who was literally there at the inception of this vast project that has been Sttoicism In Socrates on for nearly a decade. With no further ado, kicking off our series this year, here is the contribution by John Sellars! In what follows I want to set out some key ideas in Stoicism.

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My aim is to say something about the philosophical ideas that stand behind all those inspirational quotes from Seneca and Marcus Aurelius that circulate on the internet. What are the foundational principles of Stoicism as a philosophy? I shall start by saying something about how the ancient Stoics understood their philosophy. According to the ancient Stoics, Stoicism is a philosophy with three parts: logic, ethics, and physics. Most of Sttoicism In Socrates insisted that these three parts form an integrated whole and they used some nice imagery to try to illustrate this.

Stoic philosophy is like an egg, they said: logic is the shell, ethics is the white, and physics is the yolk. In each case, the point they want to make is that these three parts of philosophy form an integrated whole.

You need all of them.

The Stoics — like many other ancient philosophers — think rationality is one of the defining characteristics of human beings, so they place great emphasis on logical consistency. Indeed, so do most of us, even if we might not always be aware that we are doing so.

None of us like hypocrites, or people who say one thing one moment, only to contradict themselves moments later. According to the Sttoicism In Socrates our judgements are the foundation for all of our knowledge. Sometimes we make good judgements and Socratds we get it wrong. This is obviously important for simply understanding the world. Our emotional lives are effectively the product of the judgements we make.

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You have been told that someone speaks ill of you. So, the first task, according to the Stoics, is to pay attention to our judgements. All too often we make judgements quickly, unthinkingly, almost unconsciously.]