Stoic
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- noun
- /ˈstoʊɪk/
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- Throughout history, many have followed the teachings of the Stoic philosophers to find peace in adversity.
But how do we become Stoics without losing human emotion?
- But how do we become Stoics without losing human emotion?
- If you listen to the Stoics, it's it's a great motivator.
- The idea of like anytime you're doing, it's not that the Stoics were against emotion.
- And I fell back on the Stoics and also Nietzsche.
- I am a machine, I'm a stoic, I'm athletic, you know, that's who I am.
- So the first responses to vagueness that I'm aware of are the Stoics, the early Stoics like Chryspis.
- And, you know, Sisyphus was, was kind of the iconic hero of the Stoics.
- As you know, some of the greatest Stoics were started life as slaves.
- So why is society or these wise stoics made ego the enemy?
Examples
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"Epictetus the Stoic," he began, "tells us that liberty is the right to live as we wish."
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Well, in order to understand the Stoics, we need to understand their metaphysics.
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The Stoic believes the world is how God intended it to be, and we need to be tough to fit into it.
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The Stoic does this as well, by examining whether his actions and reactions to the events of his day are correct.
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But how do we become Stoics without losing human emotion?
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And now let me leave you with some words from Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopher.
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The Stoic, from the Roman beginning, always claimed that a rational being had a kind of self-sufficiency—an inner fortress—that kept him from being governed by forces beyond his control.
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Stoics such as Seneca engaged in a particular type of meditatio named praemeditatio malorum (or "premeditation of misfortunes").
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A familiar figure in philosophy, a Stoic believes that accepting fate leads to true happiness.
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Marcus Aurelius, a renowned Roman Stoic, emphasized the importance of self-control and reason in his writings.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stoic comes from the Greek word stoa, which means 'porch', because the philosopher Zeno taught under a painted porch and his students were called Stoics. So a Stoic as a member of that school is someone who accepts what happens and stays calm through self-control.