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What Happens When Modern Society Rebrands an Ancient Philosophy?
Everyone from Silicon Valley billionaires to self-help enthusiasts is repurposing Stoicism for our modern age, with results that are good, bad, and highly indifferent.
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Catastrophe Overload? Then Live Like a Stoic for 24 Hours
We’ve faced bad tidings for over a year now. But, viewing the news makes us feels awful; ignoring it doesn’t feel right either. Recently, Psychologist Terri Apter wrote about the “phenomenon in human behavior.” She describes how catastrophic events reduce procrastination and lazy thinking.
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Emotional Intelligence and Stoicism
We do love us a bit of Stoic guidance when we’re losing our cool. Whether we’re raging, hurt, jealous or anxious, the ancient philosophy of Stoicism teaches us to stand back, breathe and survey the emotional landscape. Once we’ve engaged our rational mind, we can then act without melting down or screaming blue murder.
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Do not weep for your dead: how to mourn as the Stoics did
Imagine you are at a child’s funeral. The child is yours. The air is numb with silence. An ache so deep you can barely breathe moves through you, until it bursts and you cry out loud. Somebody passes a tissue; another rests his hand on your shoulder. In time, your eyes run out of tears. But now there is a hole in your heart in the shape of a child, and it feels like it will never heal. Maybe it shouldn’t, you think to yourself. You lost a child. This stays with you. It’s supposed to stay with you. How should we grieve when someone close to us dies? Should we wail and gnash our teeth? Should we swallow our pain?
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Can Stoicism Make Us Happy?
Can Stoicism teach us how to live? A lot of people seem to think so. They identify as “modern Stoics,” a movement that has gained traction over the past two decades, with thousands of members now congregating online and off to practice a self-help version of the philosophical life. They include athletes, military officers, CEOs, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and writers like The New Yorker’s Elif Batuman, who described in a 2016 feature for the magazine how the Stoic philosopher Epictetus helped her cope with a long-distance relationship and sneaky taxi drivers in Turkey.
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Good Life Quotes: Top 10 Quotes For Living A Good Life
We all can learn from the great men & stoics who have shed light upon living a good life. These good life quotes & sayings will help you live the good life.
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Reading the Classics to Resist Misogyny
Sam Argyle reviews "Not All Dead White Men," in which Donna Zuckerberg critiques the decontextualized use of classical texts.
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On the Remembrance of Death
Death is perhaps one of the most terrifying concepts a human being can grapple with... By Mustapha Itani.
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Ecosophia: Zeno’s Laughter
We really are going to have to start a conversation about ethics, aren’t we? By John Michael Greer.
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Such a Stoic
Seneca is revered as a Stoic philosopher—but he was devoted to money and power, and worked as a fixer for Nero. Elizabeth Kolbert weighs the evidence.(Feb. 22, 2015)
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What the Stoics did for us
Could a 2,300-year-old Graeco-Roman philosophy be the key to a happy 21st-century life? By Massimo Pigliucci.
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Anger is temporary madness: the Stoics knew how to curb it
Seneca thought that anger is a temporary madness, and that even when justified, we should never act on the basis of it. By Massimo Pigliucci.
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10 Books to Read After Discovering Stoicism
Stoicism has been growing increasingly popular over the last decade, helped by a huge number of silicon valley entrepreneurs, financial leaders, authors, and other thought leaders swearing by their lessons. If you haven’t read any of the classical stoic books, you should. That advice needs no qualification: they’re excellent, endlessly applicable, and more often than not, readers come out of them fundamentally changed in how they think about the world.
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Indifference is a power
As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity. By Lary Wallace.
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The Consolations of Philosophy
What I saw at Stoicon 2016. By Blake Seitz.
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Preparing for a Beautiful End
Josiah Neufeld writes about a couple preparing for the end. (Jan ’15)
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“People Will Be Terrible. Deal With It.”
I first encountered Kent Keith’s Paradoxical Commandments* when I was a high school freshman and I immediately loved them, got a hold of a poster with them on it, hung it on my wall so they would face me straight across the room whenever I was propped up on my bed facing forward, and read them countless times throughout high school.
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Webcomic Review; Existential Comics
And discover other great webcomics by scrolling down and looking at previous review links.
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Why can’t we stop for death?
‘The Black Mirror’ and ‘The Worm at the Core’ reveal the human obsession with, and denial of, our mortality. By John Gray.
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Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever
As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity.
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