Stoic Discipline Of Appetite

Stoicism is a practical philosophy before it is anything else: a set of daily exercises for wanting well. Its founders taught in the marketplace, ate plainly, and measured a person by self-command rather than circumstance. Nothing in Stoicism prescribes a modern diet, but its central tools — the dichotomy of control, voluntary simplicity, and the examined appetite — bear directly on how, and how thoughtfully, we eat.