Conversations with Modern Stoicism - How should a Stoic Think About Money - with John Sellars

This is an excerpt of our first Conversations with Modern Stoicism event. How might a Stoic think about money? Can we compare the ideas of Epictetus and Seneca for some guidance? This is what John Sellars challenged us to do. Conversations is a new style of event. We bring the Modern Stoicism community together to talk to each other. There is a short presentation, group Q&A, and then we split into small groups to discuss questions and personal practice.
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[@yaxa0601]

Thanks so much! Learned so much!

[@zeff]

Thank you, this is quite insightful. :)

[@ModernStoicism]

Glad it was helpful!

[@peterz53]

@28 min, on being a good Stoic and enjoying whatever life presents to you (such as material pleasures), maybe update the ideas to account for our shared current reality of environmental collapse in coming decades. What is being done to the non-human living world and what future generations will face due to the excesses of the last 100 years or so clearly does not fit with living a virtuous life once one understands the implications of how well off people live. Profligate consumption and continued blindness about it are non-starters. An ethical framework demands vastly less consumption by the top 10% or so, and if that doesn't fit with certain conceptions of Stoicism then those conceptions need to be jettisoned.

[@PhilYanov]

You are not alone. Environmental concerns come up frequently in the Modern Stoicism community.