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The Return of Fate
The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.
Levinas
No Escape: Seneca on Earthquakes and Death
Pacific Ring of Fire Earthquake Zone Map
Stoic Frontiers
Virtue without Truth
Stoicism and Using Your Time Wisely
Reason, Emotion and “Stepping Back”
Moral Responsibility and the Flow of Time
What is a “Confession”? Part 1
Seneca and Rorty (on Freud)
Letter 113, From Pedantic to Practical
When Is “Interiority” not on the Inside?
The Apolitical Baggage of Seneca
Tranquility, Citizenship, Interiority
Reason, Politics, Anger, Nonviolence
Reason Is Always Provoked
Anger, Delay, Reason
Anger, Reason, Bureaucratic Violence
