is Reader in the History of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, Associate Editor for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project at King’s College London, and a Member of Common Room at Wolfson College, Oxford (where he is a member of Wolfson’s Ancient World Research Cluster). He is a founder member of two non-profit organizations aimed at bringing the ancient philosophy of Stoicism to a wider audience, Modern Stoicism and The Aurelius Foundation, and he is currently Chair of Modern Stoicism. He is the author of The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy (2003; 2nd edn 2009), Stoicism (2006), Hellenistic Philosophy (2018), Lessons in Stoicism (2019), Marcus Aurelius (2020), The Fourfold Remedy (2021), Barlaam of Seminara on Stoic Ethics (2022, with C. R. Hogg), and Aristotle: Understanding the World’s Greatest Philosopher (2023). He has recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (in press). Alongside Stoicism, his current focus is re-evaluating philosophy in the Renaissance in the light of idea of philosophy as a way of life. Recent publications on this include: “Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy as a Way of Life” (Metaphilosophy 51/2-3, 2020, 226-43), and “Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune” (in O. Akopyan, ed., Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400-1650, Leiden: Brill, 2021, 13-36).
Email address: john.sellars@rhul.ac.uk
Institutional webpage: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/john-sellars