Archive - Figs in Winter: a Community of Reason

What kinds of things are living organisms?

The forgotten middle path between clockwork and magic

Sep 10

How to find happiness with Cicero

Part XLI of the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series

Sep 8

Suggested Readings

A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure

Sep 5

The idea of a university (and that of a professor)

Where does higher education come from, and where is it going?

Sep 3

Cicero defends himself and his philosophy against a misguided Pyrrhonist

Sep 1

August 2026

Video: How to have willpower

Episode 26 of Ars Vivendi: Conversations on the art of living

Aug 29

When pseudoscience is in power

The horoscope is near-harmless, until it moves into the ministry

Aug 27

What philosophy promises

The Discourses of Epictetus, 1.15

Aug 25

From the Archive

The Figs in Winter archive is deep, here are some choice bits

Aug 22

How to travel with Herodotus & friends

Part XL of the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series

Aug 20

Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI

A secular-Stoic analysis of what the Pope has to say about the ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Aug 18

Suggested Readings

A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure

Aug 15

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