“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
— Marcus Aurelius
The Vegan Stoic sits at the intersection of two demanding disciplines.
Stoicism asks you to examine your life, question your assumptions, and act according to reason and virtue, not habit, comfort, or social pressure.
Veganism asks the same thing, applied to what you eat, what you wear, and how your choices ripple outward into the world.
Most people keep these two things separate.
This site doesn’t.
What you’ll find here
Essays that take Stoic philosophy seriously, not as a productivity hack or a morning routine, a framework for living ethically.
Applied to animals.
Applied to food.
Applied to how you handle mockery, doubt, and the discomfort of being different.
Who writes this
Cameron Blewett.
I’m not an academic philosopher.
I’m a person who found Stoicism useful and veganism necessary, and noticed that the two point in the same direction more often than not.
My main site is cameronblewett.blog.
Why it matters
The Stoics believed that virtue is the only true good, and that how we treat other beings is a direct expression of our character.
That feels worth writing about.