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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics

Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice

Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics

We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives

And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down

Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring

Hey, it's Ryan. I hope you guys have been enjoying these excerpts. We've been doing from the Princeton University presses ancient wisdom

for modern reader series

I don't just want this podcast to be stuff for me, but I want to draw on

Great books great ideas introduce you and myself to philosophers. I haven't read much of

sex to empiricus is

One of those philosophers. He comes a little bit after the Stoics

Born shortly around the time of the death of Marcus Aurelius

Along with Stoicism and Epicurianism skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient philosophy

that claimed to offer a way of living and thinking and today's excerpt is from

His works and it's titled how to keep an open mind

It's a fresh translation and collection of some of the best passages from sex this empiricus the only Greek skeptic whose works have survived

This is from chapter two where sex this talks about the five modes of skepticism

It explains how how we get there why they're important and how do we suspend some level of judgment to get to this place of

Tranquility it don't want you to think a skeptic is just someone who questions everything who

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