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Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. It is a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. According to its teachings, as social beings, the path to eudaimonia (happiness, or blessedness) is
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If you're interested in using the ideas from Stoicism as a way of life, feel free to listen to my podcast series called Practicing Stoicism.
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Let me ask you this: Are the people who are enthusiastic about Stoic philosophy (including me) already stoics? I mean, are they stoics even before they have read a single line from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus - or even Ryan Holiday? Is it possible to be a stoic without actually learning about Stoicism? And are some people attracted to stoics precisely because they already have a stoic personality? I remember reading Marcus Aurelius for the first time. I was standing in the cold living room of my grandmother's house, browsing books on the bookshelf. It was a happy accident, really, picking up a small random book from the shelf, opening the covers, and discovering a strange author's name and a seemingly new-age title. The book was Marcus Aurelius Medita...
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Excerpt from Teach yourself Stoicism (2013) about the "Choice of Hercules" in Stoicism.
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