Popular Writing

• 'How to Rethink your Idea of Success in the New Year – according to Ancient Stoic Philosophers', The Conversation, January 2020, online at https://theconversation.com/how-to-rethink-your-idea-of-success-in-the-new-year-according-to-ancient-stoic-philosophers-129107
• 'Lessons from Seneca', Medium, Nov 2019, online at https://medium.com/stoicism-philosophy-as-a-way-of-life/lessons-from-seneca-d9e2bb02fdb4
• 'Philosophy as a Way of Life', The Philosophers' Magazine 83 (2018), 60-65, available online at https://www.pdcnet.org/tpm/content/tpm_2018_0083_0060_0065
• 'Want to be Happy? Then Live Like a Stoic for a Week', The Conversation, 2018, online at https://theconversation.com/want-to-be-happy-then-live-like-a-stoic-for-a-week-103117 and reprinted at The Independent, Metro, World Economic Form, Newsweek
• 'Two Types of Stoic Therapy’, 2017, text at http://modernstoicism.com/two-types-of-stoic-therapy-by-john-sellars/
• ‘What is Modern Stoicism?’, 2017, text at http://modernstoicism.com/what-is-modern-stoicism-additional-reflections-from-sellars-and-sadler/
• ‘Hard Truths and Happiness’, 2016, text at http://modernstoicism.com/hard-truths-and-happiness-by-john-sellars/
• ‘Stoicism and the Art of Archery’, 2016, text at http://modernstoicism.com/stoicism-and-the-art-of-archery/
• ‘Stoicism and the Human Condition’, 2015, text at modernstoicism.com/stoicism-and-the-human-condition-by-john-sellars/
• ‘What is a Stoic? Some Historical Reflections’, 2015, text at http://modernstoicism.com/what-is-a-stoic-some-historical-reflections-by-john-sellars/
• ‘The Stoic Worldview’, 2015, text at http://modernstoicism.com/the-stoic-worldview-by-john-sellars/ and repr. in P. Ussher, ed., Stoicism Today: Selected Writings Volume Two (Exeter: Stoicism Today, 2016), 209-13
• ‘Cicero on Living a Stoic Life’, 2015, text at http://modernstoicism.com/cicero-on-living-a-stoic-life-by-john-sellars/ and repr. in P. Ussher, ed., Stoicism Today: Selected Writings Volume Two (Exeter: Stoicism Today, 2016), 23-5
• ‘Meditation on Past Evils: A Neostoic Spiritual Exercise’, 2015, text at http://modernstoicism.com/meditation-on-past-evils-a-neostoic-spiritual-exercise-by-john-sellars/ and repr. in P. Ussher, ed., Stoicism Today: Selected Writings Volume Two (Exeter: Stoicism Today, 2016), 204-5
• ‘Stoicism and Emotion’, 2014, video and full text at http://modernstoicism.com/new-video-john-sellars-on-stoicism-and-emotions-stoic-week-london-day/ and repr. in P. Ussher, ed., Stoicism Today: Selected Writings Volume Two (Exeter: Stoicism Today, 2016), 43-8
• ‘Which Stoicism?’, 2013, text at http://modernstoicism.com/adapting-stoicism-today-ii-which-stoicism-by-john-sellars/ and repr. in P. Ussher, ed., Stoicism Today: Selected Writings Volume One (Exeter: Stoicism Today, 2014), 39-41
• ‘Stoicism and its Legacy’, 2013, public lecture, audio at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stoicism-and-its-legacy
• ‘Stoicism 101’, 2013, in P. Ussher, ed., Stoicism Today: Selected Writings Volume One (Exeter: Stoicism Today, 2014), 21-2
• ‘Philosophy as Medicine: Stoicism as Cognitive Psychotherapy’, 2012, public lecture, text at https://www.academia.edu/1718989/Philosophy_as_Medicine_Stoicism_and_Cognitive_Psychotherapy
• ‘Tough Luck’, The Philosophers’ Magazine 55 (2011), 72-6, available online at https://www.pdcnet.org/tpm/content/tpm_2011_0055_0072_0076