A new stoicism
by Lawrence C. Becker · first published 1998
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…proven tool to improve and modify my psychological state. I would not call myself Stoic but there is a lot of wisdom there. I particularly like Seneca and Epictetus. The best modern book for me is "A New Stoicism" by Lawrence C. Becker.
on “An introduction to Stoic philosophy and resilience-building [video]” ↗Have a read of A New Stoicism by Lawrence C Becker [0]. It is quite technical in places but the introductary chapters and the conclusion will do enough to put old Bertie back in his logical positivist box. It's not as if Bertie was…
on “The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius” ↗Inspired by [1] I have been working on a system to integrate the Normative Calculus of Lawrence Becker from "A New Stoicism" [2] into an LLM agent. This works out kind of like Constitutional AI but prompt engineering based. There is a Raku and a Python implementation. I much preferred using Raku as the built in text handling…
on “TallMountain – Stoic Virtue Ethics for an LLM Agent” ↗