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A person who has realised that their emotional reactions and opinions (and those of others) towards other people and events have little to no effect on the outcome of a situation. In short, they know that reacting emotionally to certain sit...
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stoicism: an indifference to pleasure or pain; (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
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Yes, we do, but we do not all believe in God in the same way. All Stoics are pantheists, because Nature is our god, literally, but you can be an atheist or a deist or an agnostic and still be a Stoic in good standing. The key to what kind o...
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The stoics considered passionate emotions to be the result of errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not have such emotions.Since a lot of passion,love,lust is also involved wi...
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Yes, the Stoics philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. ChaCha on!
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I like what I know about Stoicism, although I don't have a complete grasp of it yet. I only recently started finding out more about it after reading "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Interestingly, I like some of Epicuru...
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No. This is an old misunderstanding. Emotions and feelings are normal and natural, and sometimes they're even essential to our survival. There are times when being afraid and running away is the wisest course of action. Where the misunderst...
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In this paper, it is argued the Stoics develop an account of corporeals that allows their theory of bodies to be, at the same time, a theory of causation, agency, and reason. The paper aims to shed new light on the Stoics' engagement with P...
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As Martin Bernal points out in his books Black Athena (Rutgers University Press - Vol. I (1987); Vol. II (1991)), the culture of ancient Greece was substantially influenced by African Egypt up to the time of the eruption of the volcano Sa...
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Hi John, I am not employed at a university nor am I teaching. A long time ago I was offered an opportunity that could (large maybe here however) have resulted in such employment, but I declined it for 2 reasons: the first was, that 4 years ...
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