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A Guide to Stoicism

One of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This informative introductory volume provides an overview and brief history of the stoicism movement.
66 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2022
Publication year
2022
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  • Влад Буракhas quoted2 years ago
    religion and about the part it played in the formation

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  • Влад Буракhas quoted2 years ago
    Stoicism was not so much a new doctrine as the form under which the old Greek philosophy finally presented itself to the world at large. It owed its popularity in some measure to its extravagance
  • Paul Chas quoted4 years ago
    Another definition of theirs puts the matter still more clearly. 'What each thing is when its growth has been completed, that we declare to be the nature of each thing'.

    Following out this conception the Stoics identified a life in accordance with nature with a life in accordance with the highest perfection to which man could attain. Now, as man was essentially a rational animal, his work as man lay in living the rational life. And the perfection of reason was virtue.

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