Tag: Alcoholics

Alcoholics Anonymous and Stoicism.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger was a major philosophical figure of the Roman Imperial Period. As a Stoic philosopher writing in Latin, Seneca and early Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, among others, made lasting contributions to Stoicism. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius has lo...

???I???m Not Like Other Alcoholics???

I drank every day for years, and I couldn’t control myself no matter how hard I tried. When I set out to make it through the day sober, I’d give up by sundown. When I told myself that I’d stick to just one drink for the night, I’d end up going through every last drop of alcoh...