Being Better: Stoic Justice in Practice

Stoicism is often seen as an individualistic or even selfish philosophy of life, which would isolate us from the social world to focus on our own happiness. This is a wrong view, as Kai Whiting and Leonidas Konstantakos brilliantly demonstrate in their book Being Better, Stoicism for a world worth living in.

Both authors focus on the virtue of justice. For a Stoic, justice is the art of…