I have enrolled in The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics for the January term course at my college. The professor has asked us, the students, to practically apply the concepts we study to our lives over the next three weeks. This means, while we read Epicurus we apply Epicurean philosophies to our decision making process, we let the pursuit of pleasure (insofar and pleasure is the absence of pain) guide our choices. While we study the sceptics, we must methodologically doubt what we assume to know. And when we approach the Stoics, we must pass those seven day detached from out emotions.

I think this is going to be an intense three weeks, full of fumbles and missteps as I attempt to follow the hariesis of the Ancients.