Why Seeds of Virtue?

Three main reasons beyond an obligatory name brought me to settle on Seeds of Virtue. The name and the photo above began with a phrase mentioned by Academic Prof. Christopher Gill in his interview with Kathryn Koromilas on the Stoic Salon Podcast.

If memory serves( and it often doesn’t), Gill was talking about the stoic belief that everyone had the seed of virtue in them( I think he was paraphrasing Epictetus). So one reason I settled on the name is that I like focusing on each human’s potential to be virtuous or excellent.

The second reason is that I didn’t want to add another blog/newsletter to the probably already saturated market of ideas focussing on overt, hypermasculine, Broicism. So, there is no lion iconography here.

The third reason is that the Stoic philosophy, if you’ll excuse the pun, is rooted in growth, in biological metaphor. Fig tree seeds are small, about the size of a poppy seed and it takes lifetimes to grow to this size.

So there you have it. Let’s cultivate our seeds.

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