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Introduction to “Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism”
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Jun 21, 2024
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The Philosopher by Machine
Class reunion, political opinions, and an AI analog to the Pyrrhonist philosopher Arcesilaus
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How Greek Philosophy Lost Soundness of Mind
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Amathia: How Smart People Fall for Dumb Ideas
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Why the Ancient Greeks Had No Need for Meditation
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Interest in Buddhism Declines While Stoicism Soars
Apr 17, 2025
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The Danger of Practicing Safe Zen
Aug 11, 2025
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It’s Time to Take Seriously Greek Influences on Buddhism
Jul 9, 2024
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Stoicism
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The Philosopher by Machine
Class reunion, political opinions, and an AI analog to the Pyrrhonist philosopher Arcesilaus
Jun 11
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Epictetus’ Jedi Mind Trick
This is not the reality your ego is looking for.
Jun 3
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Don’t Make This Stoic Mistake About Anger
Stoics should be angry they’ve been taught to gaslight themselves
May 31
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The Irony of Stoic Conceit
How dare someone not virtuous find Marcus Aurelius inspiring!
May 7
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The Symbol of What’s Wrong With Stoicism
Appearance, assent, grasp, and calamity
Apr 16
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Buddhism
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Epictetus’ Jedi Mind Trick
This is not the reality your ego is looking for.
Jun 3
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Doug Bates
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Meditation Without the Sitting Motionless Bit
Don’t Believe the Doxa. Focus on the Empeiria.
May 18
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Happiness Follows Like a Shadow
The Shadow Metaphor in Pyrrhonism and Buddhism
Feb 25
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The Purgative Metaphor in Pyrrhonism and Buddhism
How Pyrrho reforumulated a Buddhist prescription for a Greek philosophical ailment.
Jan 17
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Is Stoicism Cooler than Buddhism?
What psychological research about coolness tells us.
Nov 18, 2025
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Doug Bates
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Pyrrhonism
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The Philosopher by Machine
Class reunion, political opinions, and an AI analog to the Pyrrhonist philosopher Arcesilaus
Jun 11
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Doug Bates
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Epictetus’ Jedi Mind Trick
This is not the reality your ego is looking for.
Jun 3
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Doug Bates
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Meditation Without the Sitting Motionless Bit
Don’t Believe the Doxa. Focus on the Empeiria.
May 18
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Doug Bates
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The Wrong Kind of Curiosity Can Make You Dogmatic and Gullible
Modern psychology is rediscovering what Pyrrhonists knew: curiosity can liberate or trap us
Apr 24
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How Do Intellectuals Become Idiots?
The conceit of violating Pirsig's law
Apr 18
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Epicureanism
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Amathia: How Smart People Fall for Dumb Ideas
The Ancient Greek word for willful ignorance
Jan 23
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The First Philosopher of Populism
Epicurus as Proto-Populist
May 2, 2025
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Cicero Exposes the Fallacy of Virtue
Virtue cannot be the only good if it’s not even capable of being itself.
Feb 23, 2025
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Similarities Between Epicureanism and Pyrrhonism
In some cases Pyrrhonism and Epicureanism look the same - while still being different.
Feb 11, 2025
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In Defense of the Concept of Mind Viruses
Recently Dan Williams on his Substack Conspicuous Cognition made an audacious claim: mind viruses do not exist and the term is not useful.
Sep 26, 2024
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Aristotelianism
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How Greek Philosophy Lost Soundness of Mind
And how Robert Pirsig got so close to figuring it out
Mar 29
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On the Methodology of Ancient Greek Moral Philosophies
The odd case of Pyrrho’s similarity to Aristotle
Nov 27, 2024
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Book Review: Alexander At the End of the World
The Years of Forgetting Aristotle
Aug 2, 2024
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On Anger
The Pyrrhonist approach to anger, with a comparison to the Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, and Platonist approaches.
Jul 26, 2024
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The Dichotomy of Control Isn’t (Exactly) Stoic
In about everybody’s list of key Stoic ideas is the idea commonly called the “dichotomy of control.” As Epictetus famously put it:
Jul 5, 2024
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