| 单词 | Stoic |
| 例句 | Ariston, in turn, was something of a reformist within the Stoic school, holding that studies of nature and logic were a waste of time because such truths were fundamentally beyond human understanding. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z When he came of age, he moved to Athens and heard the philosopher Ariston of Chios, who was a student of Zeno of Citium, a key figure in the history of the Stoic school. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Thank the gods that don’t exist for the bravery of black women — the world’s first Stoics. Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z When Jen Jasinski — chef and owner of a group of restaurants in Denver that includes Stoic & Genuine — hits the road, she always takes trail mix made by her husband, Max, who is also a chef. Jerky, gummies and nostalgia: Here’s what chefs pack for road trips 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Stoic Elizabeth will ascend to the throne and stay there longer than any of her predecessors. Why can't we quit the royals? CNN's new series "The Windsors" show why they rule 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z It turns out there’s plenty to be Stoic about in the Bay. The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Stoics cleaned litter from parkland and a county fair, perhaps enjoying it more than most. The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Stoics, Farnsworth stresses, refuse to “worry about things beyond their control or to otherwise get worked up about them.” Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Numerous Stoic writings, such as Seneca's "On the Brevity of Life," evoke similar imagery of running water to warn against placing one's happiness in external comforts and securities, which, like a current, quickly pass. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z These songs illustrated Stoic principles through musical "text painting," in which specific words, actions or concepts were musically conveyed through sound – and, sometimes, visuals – in the score. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z On Holiday’s website, you can buy Stoic-themed pendants and prints and coins, along with a “premium display” for the Stoic coins featuring “a metallic mountain range and a silhouette of a man conquering that obstacle.” Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Stoic, unforthcoming, introspective, he isn’t minted from any of the molds in which star characters of musical theater are traditionally made. ‘Marley’ at Baltimore’s Center Stage offers up the music but not the man 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, any intelligent skimmer will find a lot to linger over — for instance, the two Stoic philosophers who died of laughter “when they saw a donkey eating figs and drinking wine.” Book World: Mary Beard’s “Laughter in Ancient Rome” reveals history of humor The Stoics taught that it is only by recognizing and accepting what is beyond a person's control that a person can exert maximal control over what is within their power. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The ancient Stoics praised the philosopher Anaxagoras for his reported response to his son’s death: “I always knew that my child was a mortal.” Snowflake or tough cookie, you’re just hiding from pain | Oliver Burkeman 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The dilemma he or she faces would look familiar to Roman Stoic philosophers in the age of Nero, especially Seneca the Younger, who wrestled with it himself for fifteen years and never found a solution. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Local Stoics also staged a Yahtzee tournament, where the winner of the most points was not necessarily the champion of the night. The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Most of us, the Stoics point out, go through life under the delusion that it is certain people, situations or events that make us sad, anxious or angry. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z As the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics understood, much of our suffering arises from attempting to control what is not in our control. Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z One way to do this, the Stoics argued, was by turning towards negative emotions and experiences: not shunning them, but examining them closely instead. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z Dulany believes a Stoic is one who embraces the challenges of life, as he did this year in organizing a successful tech conference. The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z “The Stoics were really what changed me,” she says. Uber’s Whistle-Blower Is Developing a Movie and Having a Baby 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z The Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece offer a similar prescription, rooted in self-denial and rigorous control over one’s thoughts. Ode to joy: how to find happiness in balloons and rainbows 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Music, from this perspective, offers a way to learn about the therapeutic method of the Stoics in a way that goes beyond the contemplation of philosophical lyrics. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z He's the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius liked to quote. Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z To the Stoics, lack of attentiveness amounted to psychological slavery. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z It is disheartening that an eminent classical scholar such as Hall could have misread the Stoic phliosophers so badly. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z As Pigliucci points out in “How to Be a Stoic,” “Philosophy is no miracle cure, and it should not be treated as one.” Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z As befits a good Stoic, Farnsworth’s expository prose exhibits both clarity and an unflappable calm. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z He quotes sages ranging from Seneca, the Stoic philosopher, to James Brown and Jack Kerouac. When Growing Old Is a Blessing 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Silicon Valley moguls, N.F.L. stars and Olympians flock to “Stoicon,” an annual conference of modern-day Stoics who spend a week attempting to “think like a Roman emperor.” Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Stoic and sincere - what a way to go. David Letterman live: the final Late Show - as it happened 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z When I revisited the Stoics at the onset of the pandemic, it was with the more serious intention of seeking instruction at a time of fear. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z While serving by Nero’s side for a decade, Seneca kept up his pursuit of Stoic wisdom. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Given that the word "stoic" is mostly used to describe a rigid, emotionless person, Stoic musical practices would seem doomed to the boring or bizarre. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Diogenes Laertius devotes one of his longest chapters to Zeno of Citium, whose subsequent disciples, including Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, are central to Ward Farnsworth’s “The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual.” Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Some critics say the Stoic revival has a nefarious side, too. The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z As Massimo Pigliucci explained in “How to Be a Stoic,” Stoicism is very much a practical philosophy of life that promotes social engagement and a genuine concern for others, not resignation and passivity. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z For the Stoic, as Farnsworth reminds us, “the work of life is to turn whatever happens to constructive ends.” Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Stoic Week provides seven days’ worth of guidance and mini-lectures, as well as surveys to complete before and after the week is up. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z There was a bust of his hero, Michelangelo, a plaster cast of the Stoic philosopher, Seneca, and a library of around 1,000 books. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z But Ricky, as the Stoics taught, did not enter that race. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Stoic, philosopher, fantasist and eccentric, Cornelius — that’s his last name, nobody uses his first — absorbs his inevitable doom in such style that he makes you forget about your own. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z “I am far from being a tolerable person, much less a perfect one,” he admitted to his friend Lucilius, to whom the “Letters From a Stoic” are addressed. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z These examples – and many others in the Stoic tradition that so thoughtfully unite words and sounds – transform helpful Stoic advice into a therapeutic practice guided through the twists and turns of song. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The Stoics were really writing and thinking about one thing: how to live. How would the Stoics cope today? | Ryan Holiday 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Stoic as ever, he walks from the hotel to the beach and dives into the surf. In Spain’s northern Basque region, San Sebastian shines 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z He wasn't a cultured man, but he implicitly grasped the essential codes of Stoic philosophers such as Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius. Clive Dunn in Dad's Army: stoicism, charm and furtive sausages 2012-11-07T18:38:12Z They developed a vocal music repertoire to teach the principles of the system, guiding singers and listeners to "rehearse" Stoic techniques of emotional regulation through informal musical gatherings in people's homes. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The Stoic Fellowship, an international group loosely affiliated with Modern Stoicism, helped put on today’s philo-bash. The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z In “The Daily Stoic,” Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman propose Stoicism as “a set of practical tools meant for daily use.” Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The crowd may be modest, but Bay Area Stoics have made gains since 2013, when three people formed one of the country’s first 21st-century Stoic chapters in Berkeley. The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Look closely at your experience, though, say the Stoics, and you'll be forced to conclude that neither of these external events is "negative" in itself. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z The proper way to respond to catastrophe, the Stoics will tell you, is to perceive it as a training exercise. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Stoic performers in sky-blue bowling hats and cloud-print ties rode up and down emitting deep, tonal chanting and murmuring bits of unintelligible poetry. The arts buzzword of 2016: 'immersive' 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z But when thinking about the future, Stoics such as Seneca often counselled actively dwelling on worst-case scenarios instead – staring them in the face. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z Almost all of the great philosophers — Socrates, Aristotle, the Stoics, Rousseau, Kant, Thoreau — were walkers whose ideas germinated only in motion. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z These include: “Lover,” “Destroyer,” “Spy,” “Traveler,” “Stoic,” “Essayist,” “Lord” and “Controversialist.” Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z Consequently the Stoic is “more concerned with the quality of life than its duration.” Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Throughout “The Practicing Stoic,” Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Another option is the annual online workshop known as Stoic Week, a course that originated at the University of Exeter. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Discussing the renunciatory philosophy of the Stoics and Henry David Thoreau, he discerns “a strategy of avoidance, especially in moments when society feels chaotic or catastrophic.” ‘The Longing for Less’ Gets at the Big Appeal of Minimalism 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “Breakfast with Seneca” — the most companionable of the new Stoic books — includes an appendix of these practices. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Oliver Burkeman wrote a book about counterintuitive happiness, including sections on this idea of Stoic thought. The 10 Most Unexpected Ways to Be Happy, Backed By Science 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility – not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word "happiness". Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z A classicist tries to unravel the enigma of the Stoic philosopher who was the Roman emperor Nero’s adviser. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The website Daily Stoic recommends following the advice of the ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus, who wrote “Be silent for the most part.” In Search of Silence 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Just last month in New York, a conference called Stoicon was declared to be the largest gathering of Stoics in history. How would the Stoics cope today? | Ryan Holiday 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Alec Guinness plays Aurelius as a weary—dare we say Stoic?—intellectual who wants a Roman peace that all foreigners can join, not as slaves or as clients but as citizens. Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z All too often, the Stoics note, things will not turn out for the best. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z The bass Andrea Concetti acquitted himself honorably in the ungrateful part of Seneca, the Stoic philosopher and Nero’s tutor, who is ordered to commit suicide for trying to intervene in his pupil’s amorous escapades. ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea,’ a Robert Wilson Production 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Epictetus, a formerly enslaved Greek, became a highly influential Stoic philosopher studied by Marcus Aurelius. What did Marcus Aurelius believe? 'Meditations' has the answers. 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Xenophanes wasn’t the only ancient Greek to hold such a view: subsequent thinkers proposed similar theories, including the vegetarian Empedocles and the Stoics. We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Doug Lewin, an energy consultant and the president of Stoic Energy, said he worries more about the grid in winter when there is more constant demand to keep homes warm. A blistering heat wave is turning up the pressure on Texas’ power grid 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z One of the oldest vineyards in Ukraine, Stoic Winery, which lies on the banks of the reservoir just above the Khakovka dam, is directly affected. ‘Everything Will Die’: A Dam Blast Imperils Ukraine’s Vital Lifeline 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Three are of particular note: the Epicureans, Stoics, and Cynics. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The entries range from blunt maxims to cogent dissertations, and there is no definitive organization to the work—though some patterns have been identified, with themes organized around Stoic philosophy. What did Marcus Aurelius believe? 'Meditations' has the answers. 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Access to Plato’s complete works changed that, and many scholars were influenced by Byzantine Neoplatonism, an intellectual movement that sought to synthesize the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoic philosophers, and Arabic philosophy. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Happily, I have a philosopher right here: Nancy Sherman, professor of philosophy at Georgetown and the author of “Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience.” Perspective | Don’t worry, be happy? Easy for you to say. 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z “Stoic. Bottling it up. It’s a way to cover for our shortcomings, our inability to articulate what we are thinking or feeling.” California mass shootings force grieving Asian Americans to ask painful questions 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Originally an offshoot of the Cynics, the Stoics became philosophers of fate and rationality. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Overall, it is generally agreed that Meditations gives a private window into what life was like for an imperial Roman individual to live as a Stoic. What did Marcus Aurelius believe? 'Meditations' has the answers. 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z The Stoics were so named because Zeno instructed his students in the stoa poikile, or “painted porch” in the Athenian agora. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Sherman has a fondness for the Stoics’ approach to life. Perspective | Don’t worry, be happy? Easy for you to say. 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The Stoics considered fear of death to be debilitating, and Bradatan emphasizes that fear of failure can sap the meaning from our lives. Review | How success gets in the way of a meaningful life 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Unlike the Epicureans, Stoics believed that humans had an obligation to engage in politics, which formed part of a great divine plan, something linked to both fate and nature. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The officer, who goes by the code name Stoic and operates drones, estimated there were 40 Russians in the two buildings closest to the shore and more spread out in the settlement. On the River at Night, Ambushing Russians 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Few acting jobs led him to prepare by asking real homicide detectives how they decompress after work while also reading essays about Hellenistic-period Stoics like Marcus Aurelius. A Jewish detective bows on TV during a wave of antisemitism 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The Stoics had some tips for living, but they’re too complex to lay out in my humble column. Perspective | Don’t worry, be happy? Easy for you to say. 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z This is the kind of thing that a great many thinkers have said for a very long time, and here Bradatan selects two: the Roman Stoic Seneca and the Japanese novelist Mishima. Review | How success gets in the way of a meaningful life 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The Stoics accepted the necessity of being part of a society and of fulfilling social obligations, but they warned against excesses of pride and greed. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the firefights have been intense, said Stoic, who is 23. On the River at Night, Ambushing Russians 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z The Stoic advice: Accept the things we must, improve what we can. Review | Self-help philosophy, inspired by Socrates, that avoids hard questions 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z When possible, a Stoic will constructively engage opponents and help them to grow. Opinion | Gerson was right about the Christian right 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z However, ancient Stoics believed that virtue was sufficient for flourishing and that tragic circumstances could not rob someone of their flourishing, because it could not take away their virtue. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Instead, a Stoic was to do his duty in his social roles without the distraction of luxury or indulgence. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z After losing a drone worth $20,000, the group was able to determine that a nearby Ukrainian unit had brought it down, Stoic said. On the River at Night, Ambushing Russians 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z “At first I thought Elizabeth Finch a Romantic pessimist; now I would call her a Romantic Stoic. Are the two conditions compatible?” Review | Julian Barnes is back. But where’s the magic? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z “When you imagine some pleasure,” the Stoic philosopher Epictetus wrote to his students, “wait a while, and give yourself pause.” Opinion | Straight People Need Better Rules for Sex 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The Roman Stoics further developed this idea, proposing four core virtues: courage, justice, temperance, and wisdom. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The Epicureans avoided politics, the Stoics supported existing political structures, and the Cynics mocked everything without offering positive suggestions for change. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z These standards were influenced largely by the teachings of Stoic philosophers and were based on common sense and practical ideas. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stoic, dignified and comforting, the queen’s words helped anchor the country during the fretful days that followed — not the first time the monarchy has acted as a stabilizing force for the government during tumultuous events. U.K. Monarchy and Government Plunge Into Simultaneous Crises 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z He taught math and classes on existentialism and Stoic philosophy. New York’s Private Schools Tackle White Privilege. It Has Not Been Easy. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The Stoics were wary of the type of false judgments that might arise from the emotions. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The Stoics walked and talked on outdoor porches with art on display. Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame on the "spontaneous fluctuations" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Stoics proposed that people should live virtuous lives in harmony with the will of god or the natural laws that God established to run the universe. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Stoic way of life was designed for achieving peace of mind in an age of anxiety. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This photo really needed some extra context 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z The view follows from the Stoic doctrine that all humans are endowed with reason. Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The Stoics prized rational self-control above everything else. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Seneca, a Roman Stoic, told other Stoics, "We should take wandering outdoor walks so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing." Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame on the "spontaneous fluctuations" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Among the cardinal virtues, according to the Stoics, are courage and wisdom. Opinion | MLB’s Lou Gehrig Day is a nod to greatness — and humanity 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Stoic to the end, Cuauhtémoc purportedly handed the Spaniards a dagger and asked them to kill him. Mexico City marks 500 years since conquest battle began 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Modern admirers of Stoicism often view the ancient Stoics as the original life hackers. Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Marcus Aurelius was both a Roman emperor and a Stoic philosopher. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Stoic with dashes of vulnerability, Myrupu’s debut performance grows in intricacy as the character’s health declines and lucid dreams haunt him. Review: Brazilian drama 'The Fever' reveals an Indigenous man's yearning for a return to nature 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “No great thing created suddenly,” reads an inscription on the side of the building, a quote from the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus. Largely Out of Sight in Washington, Kamala Harris Preps for White House 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z For the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, nothing was more important than your character – not even your own life. Charisma trumps character in modern politics | Brigid Delaney's diary 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Framing Stoic thought as “self-help” stops short of the real goals of this school. Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z His writings, which he meant only for himself, were eventually published in Meditations, a work that serves as one of the major sources of Stoic thought. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “Some things are in our control and others not,” the Stoic philosopher Epictetus writes in “The Enchiridion.” Opinion | Poker Taught Me How to Deal With the Hand of Fate 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the last famous Stoic philosopher of antiquity. Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z One recent episode featured a conversation on Stoic philosophy during a pandemic. ‘All of It Is Happening All at Once’: When Congress Works From Home. 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The Stoics teach indifference to the outer world. Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The Stoics were systematic philosophers whose writings focused on ethics, physics, logic, rhetoric, and grammar. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z I grew up reading the Stoics and Immanuel Kant, and they talked about how so much of life is beyond our control. In 'Whistleblower,' Susan Fowler reveals the toll of speaking out against Uber 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z He frequently applies Stoic philosophy to the challenges of coping with pain, illness, anxiety and loss. Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z He died like a Roman Stoic, while characteristically apologising, like Charles II, for taking so long about it. Clive James remembered by John Simpson 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Many modern Stoic practitioners hold that you should attempt to change your attitude, not the external world. Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z For the Stoics, the world consists of material bodies in motion, causally affecting each other. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “Since that time, I've actually been reading philosophy a little bit. Like the Stoics. I am, actually, maybe not so negative on philosophy anymore.” Analysis | The Daily 202: Marco Rubio thinks Catholic social doctrine can save capitalism 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z First of all, because Stoics believe that our true good resides in our own character and actions, they would frequently remind themselves to distinguish between what’s “up to us” and what isn’t. Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z A banner featured a quote from Epictetus, the Greek Stoic philosopher: “Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish?” How Brexit Will End 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Yes, the Stoics want to arm us against the slings and arrows of fortune. Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The Stoic god is a material entity who exists in nature and meticulously manages it, the material first cause of the universe, Aristotle’s unmoved mover incarnated as a material entity. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z As Stoic ethics moves from lecture halls to Reddit, classicist Donna Zuckerberg exposes this misappropriation, meant to enforce the concept of male superiority. The social-media war, reclaiming classics from the alt-right, and a fusion of physics and dance: New in paperback 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Modern Stoics tend to call this “the dichotomy of control” and many people find this distinction alone helpful in alleviating stress. Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z By the way, I see myself as a Stoic. I interviewed people in their 80s about how they cope with aging. Here's what I learned 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The website Lifehack, for example, claims that the Stoics taught us not to “get caught up in your passionate emotions” and argues that practicing Stoicism is about avoiding “a display of feelings.” Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The Academic Skeptics opposed the Stoic claims that sense impressions could yield true knowledge, holding instead that knowledge is impossible. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Classical Stoics said that almost nothing is worth getting upset about, even the death of a loved one, since death is an inevitable part of life. Perspective | The problems with online ‘debate me’ culture 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z This applies to unhealthy emotions in general, which the Stoics term “passions” – from pathos, the source of our word “pathological”. Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z For these Stoics, it is definitely “stiff upper lip’” and “keep on moving.” I interviewed people in their 80s about how they cope with aging. Here's what I learned 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The Stoics were the most nuanced of early emotion theorists, detailing the layered complexity of emotional life. Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The word “cosmopolitan” dates to ancient Greece — “citizen of the world” is its literal meaning — but cosmopolitanism was turned into an influential philosophy by the Roman Stoics of the first and second centuries. Why Do Politicians Blame ‘Cosmopolitans’ for Local Problems? 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The Roman Stoics used aphorisms to build fortitude. Opinion | Why Isn’t Instagram More Witty? 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Shortly after, many of the prominent Stoic philosophers became active in the capital of the Roman Empire. How I learned to stop worrying and rediscover the ancient philosophy of Stoicism 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Regina and Cassy are both Stoics, and both have many serious health issues. I interviewed people in their 80s about how they cope with aging. Here's what I learned 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The Stoics nevertheless urge us to cultivate many of our ordinary emotions, turning them into “good emotions.” Perspective | Five myths about Stoicism 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Stoic and unmoved, Mr. Trudeau did not respond directly but seemed to refer implicitly to speculation that he might not attend the ceremony and send a lower-level official to sign in his place. Trump Signs New Trade Deal With Canada and Mexico After Bitter Negotiations 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The Stoics aspired to live rationally, which meant accepting that each person could exert complete control over their own behavior. Perspective | Guess who’s championing Homer? Radical online conservatives. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z By physics, the Stoics were referring to the study of all the natural sciences, as well as metaphysics—the understanding of how the world hangs together. How I learned to stop worrying and rediscover the ancient philosophy of Stoicism 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Yes, Regina is a fine example of a Stoic. I interviewed people in their 80s about how they cope with aging. Here's what I learned 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Once, long ago, a man who would become a Stoic philosopher called us Sphinx: inscrutable, guardians of knowledge. Contagion in tranquil shades of grey 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The ancient Stoic philosophers advocated a similar practice, whereby they would overcome the fear of death by practicing little deaths daily. Opinion | The Sunshine of the Vanities 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Ancient Stoics, though, were less interested in the display of emotions than in understanding what causes them. Perspective | Guess who’s championing Homer? Radical online conservatives. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The Stoics, and Epictetus in particular, translate this into living by practicing three disciplines: desire, action, and assent. How I learned to stop worrying and rediscover the ancient philosophy of Stoicism 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z At my retirement community, Stoics come to the dining room sporting bandages, crutches, and slings. I interviewed people in their 80s about how they cope with aging. Here's what I learned 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Then read some Stoic philosophy to control those urges. Opinion | The Podcast Bros Want to Optimize Your Life 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z He’s a Stoic, with an almost superstitious dislike for the spotlight. Opinion | Trump likes Mattis. Will it last? 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The Stoic thinker Epictetus wrote in his “Discourses” that the appropriate response to the death of your child is to say to yourself, “I knew I had fathered a mortal.” Perspective | Guess who’s championing Homer? Radical online conservatives. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Theories were grabbed from here and there – including the Hindu Vedas and the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca – who believed fasting both provided a rest for the body and a discipline for the mind. To tackle a conspiracy theory, you have to find it first | Brigid Delaney's diary 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Ancient Stoic philosophers railed against greed and luxury, and Roman historians such as Tacitus lay many of the empire’s struggles at the feet of imperial avarice. Perspective | Being rich wrecks your soul. We used to know that. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Their metaphysical tastes range from Carl Jung’s psychology to ancient Stoic philosophy, which calls for self-control and transcendence of material wealth. Opinion | The Podcast Bros Want to Optimize Your Life 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The Stoics knew that you can control what you do. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The Stoic philosopher Epictetus once said, “No great thing is created suddenly.” Why This Is the Best Sin of the 7 Deadly Sins 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z The ancient Stoics avoided negative emotions by focusing on process, not outcomes. How to Stay Calm Under Pressure, According to a Weapons Disposal Leader 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen, writing in The Post, counseled “Stoic equilibrium” and “disregarding any and every tweet” by the incoming president. The huge challenge of covering Trump fairly 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The Stoics recommended “the premeditation of evils,” or deliberately visualizing the worst-case scenario. The Positive Power of Negative Thinking 2012-08-04T04:00:00Z In honor of the Stoics, I’m going to suggest that when something gets you worked up you should follow “The Toga Rule” and “Do unto yourself what you would recommend to others.” Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Stoic ex-Navy reservist standing for the family at a stream of court appearances? NFL seeing increase in violence — among its fans at games 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z But there’s a way to deal with fear and anxiety that neuroscientists, the ancient Stoics and mindfulness experts all agree on. This Is How to Overcome Social Anxiety: 5 Tips Backed by Research 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Acceptance to us means resignation but to the Stoics it meant accepting the facts as they are and then deciding what you’re going to do about them. This Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Rituals to Become Happier 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Instead, she resurrected a version of the Stoic theory that makes no division between thought and feeling. The Philosopher of Feelings 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z So what do the Stoics have on their Batman utility belt to deal with bad habits? Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “Usually chaos reigned but Jack was Canadian through and through. Stoic, calm in the eye of the storm.” Foreign correspondent, longtime journalism teacher dies 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z What did the great Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius say was the best way to handle setbacks? How to Make Good Habits Stick, According to Research 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The Stoics are saying there are no good or bad events, there’s only perception. This Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Rituals to Become Happier 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Meditations is part of the Stoic Reading List. How to Live Your Best Life, According to a Roman Emperor 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The Stoics understood just how miserable runaway desire can make you. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Letters from a Stoic, Seneca Love love love. These 14 Books Offer the Most Page-for-Page Wisdom 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The Stoic technique of negative visualisation is, precisely, about turning towards the possibility of failure. We Need to Accept Our Failures 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Alright, we’ve covered a lot of Stoic methods for beating bad feelings. This Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Rituals to Become Happier 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z To quote Roman Stoic Marcus Aurelius, "Nothing is worth doing pointlessly." Putting the Greek back into Stoicism - BBC News 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Okay, kiddo, time to rummage through the Stoic toolbox and dig out some simple rituals you can use to be much happier. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z What did Epictetus, the great Stoic philosopher, say way back in the first century AD? The Secret to Never Being Frustrated Again 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Stoic and steady-eyed, Marieme desperately wants to attend an academic high school, but her grades are consigning her to vocational education. ‘Girlhood’ depicts the competition and solidarity of teenaged friendship 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Shakespeare and the Stoics are saying that the world around us is indifferent, it is objective. This Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Rituals to Become Happier 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The Stoics among them, though, will treat a time of economic austerity as a kind of test. Putting the Greek back into Stoicism - BBC News 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Yes, the Stoics want you to deeply enjoy it. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Stoic philosophers, such as the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, said we should think about death on a daily basis, to be fearless and dignified when it happens - and to concentrate on the here and now. Seeing inside dead bodies 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The belief in time as circular, not linear, was part of the philosophies of Indians, Egyptians, Pythagoreans and Stoics, for instance. Latest News: New England Patriots, Katy Perry and Groundhog Day. 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z This part of Stoic philosophy was adapted by famed psychologist Albert Ellis to form Cognitive Behavioral Therapy — which is now the dominant method for helping people overcome problems ranging from depression to anxiety to anger. This Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Rituals to Become Happier 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Those inured to discomfort, the Stoics realised, are almost always happier than those who lead a pampered existence. Putting the Greek back into Stoicism - BBC News 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z What’s the first thing in the Stoic bag of philosophical tricks to improve how you feel — and help you make better choices in the future? Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Very little survives of the Greek Stoics, whom Seneca must have read, but the tradition placed great emphasis on austerity and self-mastery. The Man to Know in Ancient Rome 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z But, in keeping with Stoic philosophy, Holiday felt those doubts liberated him. How To Think Differently About Success -- And Failure 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The Stoics were preaching that basic idea, oh, about 2000 years earlier. This Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Rituals to Become Happier 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The Stoics valued self-control, as did most ancient philosophers. Putting the Greek back into Stoicism - BBC News 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The Stoics were big on not getting carried away by thoughts and feelings. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z According to Dio, at one point the Stoic ordered “five hundred tables of citrus wood with legs of ivory, all identically alike, and he served banquets on them.” The Man to Know in Ancient Rome 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Stoic philosophy, he says, “is what I use in my personal life,” and a “real solution to problems.” How To Think Differently About Success -- And Failure 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The Stoics are saying, “This happened to me,” is not the same as, “This happened to me and that’s bad.” This Ancient Wisdom Reveals 6 Rituals to Become Happier 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z And while Stoics do not believe in an intercessory god, their spirit suffuses the Serenity Prayer, written by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and later hijacked by the Twelve Step movement. Meet the Real Stoics Taking Psychology Back to the 3rd Century BC But the Stoics were big fans of reviewing your day so that you can improve your life. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The plays are also distinguished—strangely, for a Stoic playwright—by the violence of their passions. The Man to Know in Ancient Rome 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The Stoics were saying it thousands of years ago. How to Go From Dreaming to Doing: 4 Steps to Motivation 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z In the end, I think Twitter rewards philosophical Stoicism, and I may have a bit of the Stoic in me. Does Twitter Suck Now? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Naturally, for the moment, other Stoics are curbing their enthusiasm. Meet the Real Stoics Taking Psychology Back to the 3rd Century BC Time to round up everything you now have in your Stoic bag o’ tricks and learn the ancient technique for getting along with other people so we can all be happy… Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z To sum up the Stoic perspective very simply: it’s your beliefs about the world that cause distress, not the world itself. The Art of Negative Thinking: How Negativity Can Make You Happier 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Ryan Holiday, author of the excellent book The Obstacle Is the Way explains the Stoic perspective: How to Go From Dreaming to Doing: 4 Steps to Motivation 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Holiday explains that while the Stoic philosophy does indeed discourage pointless displays of potentially distracting emotion, it is, in fact action and results-oriented. The Obstacle Is The Way 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z What better time for an International Stoic Week with co-ordinated events across the globe and net, and a free online guide to Living the Stoical Life? Meet the Real Stoics Taking Psychology Back to the 3rd Century BC But there’s a lesson to be learned that the Stoics knew a few millennia ago… Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z He expected, in other words, that novice Stoics would routinely backslide. 4 Lifehacks From Ancient Philosophers That Will Make You Happier 2014-03-18T04:01:53Z In an even more ideal world, public pressure may convince King to stop preventing Stoic from trademarking its own, totally unrelated game. 'Candy Crush Saga' Maker Takes Down Game It Claims Isn't A Clone 2014-01-24T21:21:00Z Rather than passively enduring suffering, a true Stoic evaluates the situation in a realistic and pragmatic way, then attempts to solve the problem. The Obstacle Is The Way 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Yesterday we discussed efforts by Candy Crush Saga maker King to prevent indie studio Stoic from trademarking their game, , due to the use of the word “saga” in the title. 'Candy Crush Saga' Creator Accused Of Cloning Indie Game 2014-01-24T16:53:00Z And, frankly, the Stoic response to this was pretty extreme. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z What did Epictetus tell his students after he taught them these Stoic lifehacks? 4 Lifehacks From Ancient Philosophers That Will Make You Happier 2014-03-18T04:01:53Z Oddly enough, King has acknowledged in a statement that they don’t believe Stoic is trying to rip off Candy Crush Saga. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z Wintory, of Journey fame, weaves together an epic soundtrack for this epic tale, the perfect companion to Stoic’s fantastic artwork. 'The Banner Saga' Review: Beautiful, But Not Quite Brilliant (PC) 2014-01-17T05:04:00Z Stoic may be stuck without their own trademark thanks to King’s opposition. 'Candy Crush Saga' Creator Accused Of Cloning Indie Game 2014-01-24T16:53:00Z The Stoics believed in living in the present moment so you could enjoy life more. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The Stoics valued tranquility and thought being angry was a waste of time. 4 Lifehacks From Ancient Philosophers That Will Make You Happier 2014-03-18T04:01:53Z Stoic even noted, in a statement to RPS, that their trademark application for The Banner Saga predates King’s trademark application for the word “saga.” 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z The moment I laid eyes on indie developer Stoic’s The Banner Saga, I wanted to love everything about it. 'The Banner Saga' Review: Beautiful, But Not Quite Brilliant (PC) 2014-01-17T05:04:00Z I became interested in the social function of insults while doing research on the Stoic philosophers, who spent a lot of time thinking about how best to deal with them. Why Insults Hurt—And Why They Shouldn’t 2013-03-08T12:30:25Z Stoic was also able to review geographic information and found that a lot of interest came from Scandinavia, Russia, and Poland. A Great Way to Get Market Insight 2012-12-31T10:00:00Z What Stoics discover, though, is that willpower is like muscle power: The more they exercise their will, the stronger it gets. 4 Lifehacks From Ancient Philosophers That Will Make You Happier 2014-03-18T04:01:53Z King, in an attempt to stave off copy-cat developers has taken steps to prevent Stoic from using “Saga” in their game’s title. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z With a few tweaks to the resource management system and some real soul-searching on enemy variety, Stoic could have a really terrific game on their hands. 'The Banner Saga' Review: Beautiful, But Not Quite Brilliant (PC) 2014-01-17T05:04:00Z Stoic and stubborn throughout, Bork refused to withdraw when his defeat seemed assured. Controversial Judge Robert Bork Dies 2012-12-19T10:10:00Z Stockdale was a fighter pilot, a lecturer in Stoic philosophy at Stanford, and one of the least successful candidates for the vice-presidency of the USA in modern history. The Spin 2012-11-20T11:41:43Z A version of this article appeared August 8, 2012, on page D8 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: The Criers, The Singers & the Stoics. Who Cries the Most at the Olympics? 2012-08-08T03:32:50Z As Walker also notes, the real problem for Stoic boils down to finances. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z Stoic and prematurely graying, she said her husband had since kidnapped her mother and stabbed her brother, trying to force them to reveal her whereabouts. Women See Worrisome Shift in Turkey 2012-04-28T23:30:08Z The reader will remember the general position this institution occupied in the eyes of the Stoic moralists, and under the legislation which they had in a great measure inspired. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z As with Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school, his teaching has been perverted, so that his name has become loosely identified with indulgence in gross and sensual living. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Nothing else is known of his life, but it is clear that he was eminent amongst the Stoics of the period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z When Stoic’s viking epic is obviously nothing at all like King’s title, for instance, you start to see how King’s methods are far too blunt and expansive. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z Some had died instantaneously, shot through the head; others had fallen mortally wounded, and several of these had drawn their robes over their faces, and died like Stoics. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Men seemed to be transported again into the age of Paganism, and the suicides, though more theatrical, were perpetrated with no less deliberation, and eulogised with no less enthusiasm, than among the Stoics. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z It will be found that Cicero, whilst having no sympathy with the Epicurean philosophy of his day, sided mainly with the Peripatetics, though inclining in a few points of detail to the Stoics. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Like the earlier Stoics, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, he held that virtue may be taught. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Worse still, it’s impacting indie studio Stoic, the developer behind the Kickstarter-funded The Banner Saga. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z Some of the ancients connected her with the earth; Plato, followed by the Stoics, derived her name from ἀήρ, the air. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The Platonist exhorted men to imitate God; the Stoic, to follow reason; the Christian, to the love of Christ. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z This is the Zeus of the philosophers, of the Stoics, of Cleanthes: but he was already the Zeus of the ancient poets. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The Stoic philosophy, with its cosmopolitan note, its fixed dogmas and plain ethical precepts, came into the world at the time of the Macedonian conquests to meet the needs of the new age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z However absurd this trademark fight may be, Stoic simply can’t afford to go toe-to-toe without going bankrupt in the process. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z Both, however, observed the ascetic life, of which the abstinence of Pythagoras and the endurance of the Stoics were imitations, and all practised the virtues most opposite to heathen morality, namely, humility and charity. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z As defined by Cicero, the Stoics, St. Paul, and Butler, 83 Consequences, remote, weakness of the utilitarian doctrine of, i. 42-44 “Consolations,” literature of, leading topics of, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Further, it is certain that Hero used physical and mathematical writings by Posidonius, the Stoic, of Apamea, Cicero’s teacher, who lived until about the middle of the 1st century B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z In fact, however, the Stoics asserted the latter doctrine in unequivocal language, and in their practical ethics even exaggerated its power. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z ‘Candy Crush Saga’ looks nothing at all like Stoic’s Viking strategy RPG. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z They were practical Stoics, of the severest type which that old-world Puritanism admitted. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Two aspects under which the Stoics worshipped the Divinity—providence and moral goodness, 198 Gods, the, of the ancients, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Chrysippus, however, restricted to the best and noblest souls this future existence, which Cleanthes had awarded to all,205 and among the Roman Stoics even this was greatly doubted. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z That’s cold comfort to Stoic and any other smaller studio with the audacity to include words like “candy” or “saga” in their games in the meantime. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z As good Stoics, they were of all philosophers the most conceited, and took it especially ill that any sect should presume to rival them in their private virtues of obstinacy and endurance. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Subjugation of the, to the reason, taught by the Stoics, &c., History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The Stoics thought that the infant received its soul when respiration began. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z And that leaves Stoic in a quandary, and just as confused as the rest of us. 'Candy Crush Saga' Tries To Crush 'The Banner Saga' In Bizarre Trademark Saga 2014-01-23T21:31:00Z They were Stoics, of course, like their master, but their stoicism was far from confining itself to convictions and meditations. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Its influence on the Stoics, 245 Eclipses, opinions of the ancients concerning, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z But it is not the apostle’s business to adjust his position to that of Stoics and Epicureans, or to unfold a new philosophy; but to teach the way of the new life. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z The Stoics, like all other men, felt the moral current of the time, though they yielded to it less readily than some others. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The Peripatetic and the Stoic schools of Greek philosophy led to this idea of love to all humanity and the natural union of all men in one great society. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Curiously enough, he had been a zealous Stoic, and remained so, in the Christian sense, after his conversion. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The Stoics secured from quietism by their habits of public life, 199-201. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Its gods were the Epicurean deities who dwell aloof and careless of men; or the supreme Reason and Necessity of the Stoics, the anima mundi, of which human souls are fleeting and fragmentary images. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z In the writings of the later Stoics, if we find the same elements as in those of their predecessors, these elements are at least combined in different proportions. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The Stoics had begun long since to make terms with popular religion, but Seneca is entirely free from delusions as to the gods of popular belief. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Zeno and the Stoics attribute this creation to the universal elements of fire and water. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Its destruction of the active duties and critical spirit, 329 Neptune, views of the Stoics of the meaning of the legends of, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Stoics and Epicureans, old and new Academics, Peripatetics and Pythagoreans disputed the palm of wisdom in mere strife of words. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z But although on all these points the later Stoics approximated much to Christianity, we have already seen that it is easy to discover in each case the cause of the tendency. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The habit of daily self-examination became general among the Stoics, and they recommended it warmly to their pupils. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Sentimental liberalism is Christianity without the Stoic note. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z His picture of Greek married life, 289 Pluto, meaning of, according to the Stoics, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The earliest attempts of the Greek philosophers to present philosophy in a complete and articulated order—attempts generally attributed to the Stoics, the schoolmen of antiquity—made it a tripartite whole. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z But this method of assimilation, which culminated in the Gnostics, the Neoplatonists, and especially in Origen, was directed not to the later Stoics of the Empire, but to the great philosophers who had preceded Christianity. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The prevalence of Syrian and Egyptian religions, inculcating ecstatic communion with a god and the soul's need of preparation for the next world, contributed to the change that is witnessed in Stoic philosophy. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z To this problem the Stoic gives substantially four answers, with all of which we are already somewhat familiar:— First: Only that is evil which we choose to regard as such. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Either she was a Stoic, or more unfeeling as to her offspring than he liked to consider a lady to be who was also his old friend. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z From Socrates to Aristotle, from Aristotle to the Stoics and Epicureans, and from the Stoics to the Neo-Platonists, this is the common theme: the supremacy of knowledge, its central and essential relation to virtue. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z In the later Stoics, self-examination and purity of thought were continually inculcated. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Their generation rejected the Stoics, but they may not have been right. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Second: The wise man, the Stoic sage, is absolutely perfect, the complete master of himself, and rightfully the ruler of the world. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z In the advanced course we shall have to return to this subject, and shall there refer in extenso to the views of the Stoics. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The Stoic, not altogether refusing such help, tended rather to rest his single self on a fellowship of ideal sort, on the great city of gods and men, the civitas Dei. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Neither the teaching of the Stoics, nor the government of the Antonines, nor the triumph of Christianity could restore it. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Stoicos, 33, on this Stoic paradox of the equality of God and the sage. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z A characteristic prayer and meditation and hymn will show us, far better than description, what this Stoic religion meant to those who devoutly held it. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z I regard the Stoic declamations on suicide as an instance of the latter sort. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z But he tends to identify it with the supreme or higher soul:—as Aristotle did after him, to be followed by the Stoics and Neo-Platonists. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Neoplatonism, and the philosophies that were allied to it, were fundamentally pantheistic,618 but they differed widely from the pantheism of the Stoics. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z This Stoic justification of suicide was repudiated alike by Christians and Neo-Platonists. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Modern literature of the nobler sort has many a Stoic note; and we ought to be able to recognise it in its modern as well as in its ancient dress. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Cleanthes became the best pupil of Zeno, and grew up to be a very wise and learned man, indeed one of the most famous philosophers of the Stoic school. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z The Stoic emphasised the all-embracing necessity, the absolute comprehensiveness of the moral kingdom. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z In the age of Cato and Cicero the character of the ideal was wholly Roman, although the philosophical expression of that character was derived from the Greek Stoics. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z He looks past the Stoics, and he finds in memory and association arguments that outweigh anything they can say. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The Stoic, truer to the facts, and in not less but more heroic spirit declares: "There is matter, but it doesn't matter if there is." The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The closeness of the connexion is illustrated by Juvenal’s epigram that a Cynic differed from a Stoic only by his cloak. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The Greeks and Romans, Plato and Aristotle, even the Stoics, did not have it. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The eulogy he passed on his Stoic master Apollonius is worthy of notice. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z An Epicurean, Damis, and a singularly feeble Stoic are debating whether gods exist, and whether they exercise any providence for men. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z "Must my leg be lamed?" the Stoic asks. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z It was left to the Stoics to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to assign to the words “knowledge” and “nature” a saner and more comprehensive meaning. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z "Epicureans are to Stoics as circumference to centre." Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Sometimes the Stoics showed their independence by a rather gratuitous insolence. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The goodness of the Creator The rationality and the order of the Universe are commonplaces of Stoic teachers, and, in measure, its beauty. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z In the words of the Stoic, "The man who is a hundred furlongs from Canopus, and the man who is only one, are both equally not in Canopus." The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z While there is frequent allusion to the Stoics in the poem, there is no direct mention either of them or of their chief teachers, Zeno, Chrysippus, or Cleanthes. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We read, "Then certain of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him." "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z Dion Cassius relates that, when Nero was thinking of writing a poem in 400 books, he asked the advice of the Stoic Cornutus, who said, that no one would read so long a work. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z He went to the lectures of Attalus, a Stoic teacher, who laid great stress on simplicity of life and independence of character and was also interested in superstition and soothsaying. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z There are hard things to do and to endure; and if we are to meet them bravely, we shall have to call the Stoic to our aid. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Hence it is that the tones of Lucretius might in many places be mistaken for those of a Stoic rather than an Epicurean. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Pantænus, who became head of the catechetical school at Alexandria about 180, had been a Stoic. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z The Epicureans and the Stoics can each claim a great historical fact in their favour. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z There is wit, too, but like Stoic wit in general it is hard and not very sympathetic; it has nothing of the charm and delicacy of Plato's humour, nor of its kindliness. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The Stoic thought had substance, content, objective reality, as unfortunately most of the current phases of popular philosophy have not. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Perhaps, too, in the positive good at which he aimed, the spirit of Lucretius was more that of a Stoic than he imagined. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In this the Positivist and Materialist of the present day only take the position which the Stoic took of old. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z These passages, which might be indefinitely multiplied, serve to show how successfully the Stoics laboured, by dilating upon the conception of Providence, to mitigate the arrogance which one aspect of their teaching unquestionably displayed. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The immense practical need, which the Stoic felt, of fortifying himself against the world, is not unintelligible, but it led him into error. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z This objective and universal principle the Stoic found in law. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The existence of Cassius, who acted and suffered for the same cause as the Stoic Cato, shows that political apathy, although theoretically required by this philosophy, was not essential to a Roman Epicurean. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But Melancholy's glooms assail my breast, For potent nature reigns despotic here;— A nation ruin'd, and a world oppress'd, Might rob the boldest Stoic of a tear. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The same moral impulse which transformed the Neoplatonist into a dreaming mystic and the Catholic into a useless hermit, impelled the Stoic to the foremost post of danger in the service of his country. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Yet it remains that the chapters, with which his book on Clemency ends, are a Stoic protest against pity, and they can be re-inforced by a good deal in Epictetus. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The most uncompromising exponent of this second half of the Stoic doctrine in the modern world is Immanuel Kant. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z For the Stoics always aimed at unity of principle, as for them God and the world were not dissevered. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Stoic as he was, his stoicism then forsook him, and he wept like any other child. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z Cicero assigned a place of happiness in the future world to all who faithfully served the State.624 The Stoics had taught that all virtue was vain that did not issue in action. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z In spite of all his fine words, the Stoic really knows of nothing between the individual and the cosmos, for his practical teaching deadens, if it does not kill, friendship and family love. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z We can all reduce enormously our troubles and vexations by bringing to bear upon them the two Stoic formulas. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z We may gather from the writings of Cicero and Diogenes Laertius, that they did more scrupulously observe the laws, piety, and fidelity among men, than any other sect whatsoever, not excepting even the Stoics themselves. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z It is only among a few of the later, degenerate, and rationalist sects of philosophy, the Stoics for example, that the expression Divine Reason is ever met with. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z The Epicurean philosophy which rejected, the Academic philosophy which doubted, and the Stoic philosophy which simplified and sublimated superstition, had alike disappeared. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Everything with the Stoic turns on the individual. t� ep� soi, "the things in your own power," is the refrain of Epictetus' teaching. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Business, house-keeping, school-teaching, professional life, politics, society, would all be more noble and dignified if we could bring to them every now and then a touch of this Stoic strength and calm. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Hence you are not required to be stolidly indifferent or to arm yourself with the stern insensibility of the Stoics; that would not be either resignation, or humility, or any virtue whatsoever. Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z The Stoic, Epicurean, and Platonic forms of philosophy recognize two classes of mankind—the noble-minded who formed their disciples, and the gross multitudes whom they avoided as sunk hopelessly in degradation. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z The first part was simply borrowed from the Stoics, whose doctrines and method thus passed from the narrow circle of a philosophical academy and became the avowed moral beacons of the civilised globe. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z All this is due to the Stoic glorification of reason, as the embodiment in man of the Spermaticos Logos. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z If we have grasped this principle, we are prepared to read intelligently and sympathetically the otherwise startling and paradoxical deliverances of the Stoic masters. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z St. Hilaire does not believe in the Christian religion, but he has Descartes's philosophic belief in God, and the elevated morality of the Stoics. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z He was made of the stuff of the Stoic. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z The race of great Roman Stoics, which had never ceased during the tyranny of Nero or Domitian, began to fail. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The Stoic Spermaticos Logos was a cold and uninspiring dogma compared with "Abba Father" and the Spirit of Jesus—it was not the same thing at all. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The grandest expression of the Stoic religion, however, is found in the hymn of Cleanthes. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Through the hundreds of years that intervened before the world's awakening, the 'Stoic dogma,' enforced by authority, held the world in thrall. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z Indeed, seeing that the progress towards perfection of a civilised state, or polity, depends on the obedience of its members to these commands, the Stoics sometimes termed the pure reason the "political" nature. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z The only case in which any plausible arguments have been urged in favour of the notion that the writings of the Stoics were influenced by the New Testament is that of Seneca. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Without enthusiasm and without clear belief, the Stoic may take part in the ordinary round of the cults. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The typical evils of life can all be brought under the Stoic formula, under some beneficial law; all, that is, except sin. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z But he was saved by his aristocratic pride and the stern teaching of the old Stoics. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z Some of the victims had died under torture rather than bear witness against their friends, for the Tagal is a Stoic after the manner of the Red Indian. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The same principles were reiterated with increasing emphasis by the later Stoics. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The Stoics, however, fell between two stools, for they had not enough feeling for the past to satisfy the pious and patriotic, nor the resolution to be done with it. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The Stoic implied that they are all, if not positively bad, at least so low and unimportant that the wise man will not pay much attention to them. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The Stoic Seneca says: "Homo sacra res homini," "Man is sacred to man." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z If thou canst not be a Spartan, be a Stoic; if not an avenger, then a forgetter; if not a lover, then a gallant! Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z The Roman Stoics, taking a wider survey, declared that man is born not for himself but for the whole world.385 And their doctrine was perfectly consistent with the original principles of their school. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The Stoics in some measure felt their weakness here. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z He rejects the Stoic principle of conformity to law; because it fails to recognise the supreme worth of individuality. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The Stoics answer this question as follows: "Morality is living according to Nature." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z He is continually reminding us: from Rousseau and the revival of Stoic Rome. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z This problem the Roman Stoics were incapable of meeting, but they did what lay in their power, and their efforts, though altogether inadequate to the disease, were by no means contemptible. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Plutarch's criticism When once this central uncertainty in Stoicism appeared, all the fine and true words the Stoics spoke of Providence lost their meaning for ordinary men who thought quickly. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Evidently we are now on the track of a principle infinitely more subtle and complex than anything the pleasure-loving Epicurean, or the formal Stoic, or the transcendental Platonist has ever dreamed of. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Further, the definition of the Stoics ignores the aggregation of concepts which the synthetic conception, Morality, involves; as if this were self-evident and required no definition. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z In the Hellenistic period, Zeno, the Stoic, and his followers proclaimed the supremacy of the sidereal divinities even more strongly than the schools of Plato and Aristotle had done. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z The Stoics identified man with God, for the purpose of glorifying man—the Neoplatonists for the purpose of aggrandising God. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The religious teachers of the day laid hold of the old paradoxes of the school and with them demolished the Stoic Providence. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z It is so unimportant a factor that the Stoics pronounced it indifferent. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z We have seen that Aristotle, in definite though unconscious opposition to the Stoics, who consider Morality synonymous with Nature, defines it as the activity of Reason. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z The Stoics conceived the world as a great organism whose “sympathetic” forces constantly interacted upon one another, governed by Reason which was of the essence of ethereal Fire, the primordial substance of the universe. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z To the philosopher it was at once the echo of the highest ethics of the later Stoics, and the expansion of the best teaching of the school of Plato. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The pressure of the empire and the terrors of living drove some to philosophy and many more to the gods—and for these certainty was imperative and the Stoics could not give it. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Yet the Stoic paradox is very much nearer the truth than the statement of the average man, that external things are the whole, or even the most important part of our mental states. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The Stoics, too, try to sever the connexion between moral conduct and Pleasure, and to conceive the former as a simple activity of human nature, one, moreover, from which they expect no particular satisfaction. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Now it was the Stoics alone who developed a thorough-going fatalism and at the same time made it consistent with practical life and virtue. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z Seneca himself was by no means an unmixed Stoic. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z It was long familiar to Greek philosophy, and Philo and the Stoics base much of their thought upon it. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The first half of the Stoic doctrine is that we give our world the colour of our thoughts. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The Stoics reply, "That which is good is natural." Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Posidonius and Geminus, both Stoics of the first century B.C., gave as their alternative, "There exist straight lines everywhere equidistant from one another." The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Some such animal-notion was held by Plato, and by some of the later Stoics; though it does not seem to have been worked out in detail. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z No Stoic would have denied that the Spermaticos Logos was in Jesus, but the bold identification of the Logos with Jesus must have been "foolishness to the Greek." The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The first half of the doctrine alone would leave us in crude fantastic Cynicism,—the doctrine out of which the broader and deeper Stoic teaching took its rise. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z That is what we want to know when we inquire as to the significance of Morality, and the definition of the Stoics throws no light whatever upon the matter. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z The Stoics, the Epicureans, the Platonists, all had their several specifics which they vended as truth. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z Among the Protestant clergy are frequently to be found the noblest and most virtuous of men, such as would have won respect from even the ancient Stoics. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z It is psychology that interests Tertullian more, and moral questions, and these he handles more deeply than the Stoics. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Modern apostles of the essential Stoic principle incline to paint the world in the roseate hues of a merely optional optimism. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Stoic but blunt, in virtuosic control of her temperament, the exchange student you might’ve known in high school — the one who grasped English as a second language better than you did as a first. Woman who lost parents on 9/11 will always wonder: Why? 2011-09-09T01:59:25Z ‘Ypotis’ is Epictetus the Stoic philosopher, and the poem is derived from the old moralizing dialogue literature; it is related to the Anglo-Saxon dialogue of Solomon and Saturn. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The man was taking his punishment like a Stoic. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z Seneca and the Stoics played with the fancy of man's being equal, or in some points superior, to God—a folly impossible for a Jewish mind. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The problem of evil was the great problem of the Stoic, as the problem of pleasure was the problem of the Epicurean. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Galen, who in his youth was carefully trained in the Stoic philosophy, was an unusually prolific writer on logic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Jesus, let us repeat it again and again, endured not like a Stoic, deadening the natural impulses of humanity. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z And in another place in the same poem he speaks of "Stoic Franklin's energetic shade, Robed in the lightnings which his hand allayed." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z "Lykinos" meets Hermotimus on his way to a lecture—a man of sixty who for many years has attended the Stoics. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z And in the case of the Stoic this interest was very attenuated. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Of this work, which contains no direct intimation of a fourth figure, and which in general exhibits an astonishing mixture of the Aristotelian and Stoic logic, Prantl speaks with the bitterest contempt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z You are not quite a Stoic, but you will do very well for one.” Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z But it is a Stoic doctrine, that the wise man will do everything well, and will be able to cook even lentils cleverly. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z "Do not think that I speak against the Stoics, through any special dislike of the school; my arguments hold against all the schools." The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z As a matter of fact the Stoics were very defective in their standards of citizenship. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The best of the ancient Stoics did so, and many a modern Agnostic is doing so to-day. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z This explains in a measure why Christianity came to replace the Stoic and Epicurean philosophies. The Making of an Apostle 2011-07-26T02:00:19.187Z Some of the Stoics also were addicted to this kind of pleasure. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Virtue Lykinos pictures as a City, whose citizens are happy, wise and good, little short of gods, as the Stoics say. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The Stoics are not the only people who have deceived themselves with vast abstractions. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The doctrines of the Stoics, Greek and Roman, bear, in Mr. Huidekoper's opinion, evident marks of Jewish origin. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z There is also a very similar passage in a hymn of the Stoic Cleanthes: “Zeus, thou crown of creation, Hail!—We are thy offspring.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z For they all clung to the doctrines of the Stoic school. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The appeal to the consensus of men, as the expression of the universal and the natural, and therefore as evidence to truth, is essentially Stoic. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z "We are born subjects," exclaims the Stoic, "but to obey God is perfect liberty." The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The necessity in the world’s order is regarded by the Stoics as identical with the divine reason, and this idea is used as the basis of a teleological and optimistic view of nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Certainly not I. But even the Stoics only teach men to endure opposition with calmness; they do not insist that we should renounce everything, from our property to our dinner. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z And he was kindly received by the king, although the monarch rather inclined to the doctrines of the Stoic school. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z It may well be true that the environment of the Stoics was not fit for so high and pure a philosophy. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The hymn is addressed to Zeus, as the Stoics freely used the names of the popular gods to express their own deeper meanings. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Epicureans differed from the Stoics by adopting a purely mechanical view of the world-process. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z He knew many Stoics personally; for these he cherished dislike, since he looked on them rather as a political party, and, besides, as hypochondriacs, hostile to joyous living. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z He made choice of the sect of the Stoics, who were sometimes called scholars of the Portico, because their master gave his lectures in a portico adorned with pictures, at Athens, in Greece. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z The Stoics and he were at one about the Supreme and Ultimate God, waiving the matter of personality, which he asserted and which they left open. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z To the Stoic Plato gives a similar answer. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The Stoics.—In the cosmology of the Stoics we have the germ of a monistic and pantheistic conception of evolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z The Epicureans regarded fate as blind chance, while to the Stoics everything is subject to an absolute rational law. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The Stoics followed Plato in the philosophical use of Logos. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version 2011-05-31T02:00:30.837Z See also M. Aurelius in the same Stoic vein, viii, 50; ix, 42. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Before we find the perfect guidance of life we must look beyond the Stoic as well as the Epicurean, to Plato, to Aristotle, and, above all, to Jesus. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z This method owed its origin to the mode of interpreting the popular mythology first employed by the Sophists and more thoroughly by the later Stoics. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z In the suburbs of the city tradition still lingered of the Academy of the Platonists, the Lycæum of the Peripatetics, the Portico of the Stoics, and the Garden of Epicurus. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Carlyle was a Stoic, or in other words a Calvinist without dogmas; he had also learned to be a mystic from his studies of German idealism. The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 2011-05-11T02:00:18.513Z In opposition to Marcion, Tertullian emphasizes the worth of the world; his position, as a few words will show, is not that of Celsus, but Stoic influence is not absent: adv. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The Stoic draws into the citadel of his own self-sufficiency; and from this fortified position defies attack. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The foundations of the leading systems were laid in antiquity, the names of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Cynics, and the Stoics being especially prominent. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z He was the first to recover himself, saying— "Your ill-timed jests would provoke a Stoic." The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Perhaps his ethic, like that of the Stoics, with whom he had so much in common, was better adapted to satisfy the needs of the philosopher than of the ordinary man. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z The Logos We have seen that Clement quarrelled with the Stoics for involving God in matter—"even the most dishonourable." The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The Stoic asks him whether he has kept all the commandments. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The doctrines of Lucretius, particularly that which impugns the superintending care of Providence, were first formally opposed by the Stoic Manilius in his Astronomic poem. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Thus, though on different principles, the founder of the Stoics agreed with the Peripatetics and old Academicians, that there existed certain means of ascertaining truth, and consequently that there was evident and certain knowledge. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z He was probably a contemporary of Cleanthes the Stoic in the 3rd century B.C. The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe 2011-04-03T02:00:15.847Z Let them look to it who have produced a Stoic and Platonic and dialectic Christianity. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The shortest way to understand the Stoic principle is through the psychological doctrine of apperception. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The Stoics believed in the school of philosophy founded by Zeno. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z The part of the dialogue now extant, contains a refutation of the doctrine of Chrysippus the Stoic, which was that of fatality. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Stoic in his speech when speaking to reporters, Liggins is anything but reserved on the court. Chicago's Liggins home at Kentucky 2011-03-27T01:32:00Z Perhaps the memory of his own weakness and failure contributed to make him the most sympathetic and the least arrogant of all Stoics. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Indeed a Stoic woman is a contradiction in terms. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The Stoics and many other ancient philosophers thought that the world was doomed to final extinction by fire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Nor did the Stoics entertain opinions; but they refrained from this, because they thought that everything might be perceived with certainty. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z From the bottom of my heart I pity the Stoic who cannot comprehend the full and precious import of the word home. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z This was the Stoic's condemnation of the gladiatorial shows. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Now if the other boy had been a Stoic, he would not have taken offence, and the first boy might have called him a fool with impunity. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The ancient sects of Platonists or Platonics were allied in some points of doctrine with the Epicureans, and were rivals if not opponents of the Stoics. The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History 2011-03-09T03:00:46.980Z It seems now to be pretty well settled, that, in substance and principles, he followed the Stoics; but that he imitated Plato in the style and dress in which he arrayed his sentiments and opinions. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Brodsky, who declined to be interviewed, launched his fund in 2005 and named it for Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic emperor of ancient Rome and author of Meditations. Tribune puts spotlight on hedge fund battler 2011-03-07T18:28:28Z Marcus Aurelius, in some ways the most attractive of all Stoics, was virtually the last. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z A good test of one's appreciation of the Stoic position is whether or not one can see the measure of truth their paradoxes contain. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z It probably differed in many ways from the sudden and conscious conversions which began the ministry of certain Greek philosophers, both Cynic and Stoic, in the fourth and third centuries before Christ. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Now, the Stoics would not allow them to be good, but merely valuable, eligible, or preferable; so that the sects could be reconciled in sentiments, if the terms were a little changed. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z It was the Stoics who asserted that the discovery of τὸ ἔτυμον would explain the essence of the things and ideas represented by words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Men studied the Stoics and made fresh copies of their books, as they did for a thousand years; they borrowed and adapted; but they were not Stoics. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z This, in spite of its exquisite lyrical expression, the Stoic would flatly deny. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z However, Musonius, the Stoic, was sent to penal servitude by Nero. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z At the beginning of the other and larger chasm, Cotta was proceeding to argue against the proposition of the Stoics, that there is a Divine Providence which governs the world. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z That this impassive sage was a being not to be found among living men the later Stoics at least were fully aware. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The broad gulf between the common Roman life and Stoic teaching is evident enough. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z But like the modern religious perfectionists, the Stoics had little concern for the concrete, individual, personal ties which bind men and women together in families, societies, and states. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z How much more highly we should think of Seneca if that literary Stoic had not been a minister of Nero. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Paradoxa.—This tract contains a defence of six peculiar opinions or paradoxes of the Stoics, somewhat of the description of those which Cato was wont to promulgate in the Senate. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z So far, the Stoic “nature” seems in danger of being as revolutionary as Rousseau’s. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z All is thrown upon the individual will, upon "the universal" working in the individual, according to Stoic theory, "upon me" the plain man would say. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z In like manner Christianity takes up all that is true in the Stoic teaching, without falling into its hardness and narrowness. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Stoics held that all the passions are diseases of the soul, and that one is perfect when one arrives at the condition of being passionless or apathetic. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z Balbus, after farther arguing for the existence of the gods, from events consequent on auguries and auspices, proceeds to what is more peculiarly the doctrine of the Stoics. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Both Stoic and Cynic maintained, in its sharpest form, the fundamental tenet that the practical knowledge which is virtue, with the condition of soul that is inseparable from it, is alone to be accounted good. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Sin and salvation Again, in their contempt for the passions the Stoics underestimated their strength. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z To serve him faithfully in the lower spheres of life is a wholesome preparation for the intelligent and reasonable service of Stoic, Platonic, Aristotelian, and Christian ideals which rule the higher realms. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The Sophists and the Sceptics, Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and the Epicureans took up the question, and from the time of Locke and Kant it has been prominent in modern philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z I believe it, indeed, but not from any arguments of the Stoics. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z It is true that the Cynics were more concerned to emphasize the negative side of the sage’s well-being, while the Stoics brought into more prominence its positive side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z But there is no question that for the mass of men, the Stoic account of reason is absurd. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Thus he gets the Stoic strength without its hardness, the Stoic universality without its barrenness, the Stoic exaltation without its pride, the Stoic integrity without its formalism, the Stoic calm without its impassiveness. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z But he frequently describes an ideal character of a missionary sage, the perfect Stoic—or, as he calls him, the Cynic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z His ethical principles, in particular, appear Eclectic, having been, in a great measure, formed from the opinions of the Stoics. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z This alternative is the less dangerous to morality, and as such the Stoics chose it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The ancient world, at any rate, and in general the modern world, have pronounced against Stoic Psychology—it was too quick, too superficial. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The Stoics thought that the human soul, the offspring—nay, rather an offshoot—of the Divine world-soul, would be absorbed into its parent essence. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z To the Epicureans the elaborate logic of the Stoics was a superfluity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z |
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