This chapter explores how philosophy can benefit parents and children, including examples of ancient philosophers who prioritized philosophical education for their own children. It also introduces Stoicism 101, a course that teaches parents how to apply Stoic principles in their everyday lives.
Aristotle wrote his famous Nicomachean Ethics for his son, Nicomachus. Seneca was given a philosophy teacher by his father. Cato too, was given the philosophical education his parents felt the promising boy deserved. Marcus Aurelius tried to give Commodus a group of philosophical advisors, and we can imagine that one of his great disappointments in life was that his philosophy and his example didn’t seem to rub off on his son.
Stoicism 101
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