Stoic Lessons for Life, Business, & Relationships

Today's guest Dr. KEVIN VOST holds a Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) degree from Adler University in Chicago and has taught at schools including the University of Illinois at Springfield and Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Porch and the Cross: Ancient Stoic Wisdom and Memorize the Stoics.
Extolling the powers of God-given human reason, Stoic philosophers such as Roman knight Musonius Rufus and his student, the former slave, Epictetus, developed powerful practical lessons for living tranquil, virtuous, loving lives. These lessons were praised by such early Church Fathers as Justin Martyr and Origen. Epictetus's Handbook was later adapted as a moral guidebook for monks. A millennium later, Thomas Aquinas mined the Stoic Seneca's lessons on anger, gratitude, patience, and more for use in his Summa Theologiae. And in our own day, the psychological and moral teachings of the Stoics constitute an "art of living" that fairly cries out to act as compass for the nearly rudderless boat of our disordered contemporary world.