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This forum is for students taking Dr. Seddon’s correspondence course in Stoic Philosophy, and for others interested in Stoic Philosophy as a practical philosophy to live by.

(Please visit the International Stoic Forum by clicking on the link in the Links section, on the left of this page.)

The Stoic Foundation was established in 2000 as an educational trust, offering advice, support and a correspondence course in practical Stoic philosophy to anyone interested in taking up Stoicism as a philosophy to live by.

The Foundation is happy to advise on any aspect of Stoic philosophy, from advice on primary source literature (including the ancient Stoic writers), secondary source literature, and by offering our own correspondence course.

EXTRACT FROM THE FOUNDATION’S DEED OF TRUST

The Stoic Foundation’s objects are as follows: To promote philosophical understanding and awareness in the individual, and thereby in society at large, in accordance with the ideas, principles, philosophy and values of STOICISM as found in the texts of Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and other Stoic writings of the classical Greco-Roman period, as founded by Zeno of Citium.

To encourage an appreciation of, experience of, and a conversion to the ‘good life’ whose aim was ‘eudaimonia’ as conceived by the Stoic philosophers, which consists of living ‘the philosophical life’ in which the subject accepts the will of providence, curbs the emotions, and acts towards others with patience and kindness, enjoying an inner state of tranquillity and well-being.

To teach that virtue is the only good, that vice is the only harm (whilst all else is indifferent), and that ‘living according to nature’ as understood by the Stoics is the proper end for all rational creatures.