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Building Stoic Mindfulness (Episode 55)

Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied

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Stoic Mindfulness

Stoic mindfulness is sometimes grounded in this Greek term, Prusoke, which can be translated as attention. Epictetus has a section or a chapter entitled on attention. There's an interesting debate about whether Prusoke is technical in the same sense that some other terms like pro-hiresis or ochiosis are these fundamental technical terms for stoics. But what I am convinced of is that nonetheless, this general idea of attention, mental vigilance is something you see again and again in the stoics.

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