We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

We've talked about stoicism on the site.

It's a philosophy born in ancient Greece, but really embraced by the ancient Romans, particularly

high-class Romans like Seneca and even emperors like Marcus Aurelius, who's one of the most

famous stoic philosophers with his meditations.

But I guess they wrote a book talking about how the philosophy of stoicism can help soldiers,

men and women who are served fighting in our wars, face the challenges that come with that

profession.

Her name is Nancy Sherman.

She is a professor at philosophy at Georgetown University.

She's served as a chair, the chairwoman of ethics at the US Naval Academy.

And in her book, Stoic Warriors, she takes a look at how different facets of stoic philosophy

can help soldiers navigate things like losing a partner, losing a comrade, losing an

arm, dealing with PTSD.

So we talked to some about that.

We also discussed, for most recent, book After War, healing the moral wounds of our soldiers,

we discussed how not only war, how war can traumatize someone mentally, emotionally, physically,

but also morally.

And what soldiers can do to heal those moral wounds, what the military is doing to do that,

and what civilians can do to help the men and women who are fighting for them.

Totally fascinating discussion, thinking a lot out of it, even if you're not a soldier,

the stoic principles that we talk about can definitely help your own life.

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