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Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction is a 2018 philosophy book by Brad Inwood. As part of the Very Short Introductions series published by Oxford University...

Very Short Introductions is a series of books published by Oxford University Press. Greer, Shakespeare: ISBN 978-0-19-280249-1. Wells, William Shakespeare:...

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is...

Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from living a life of virtue in accordance with nature. It proved very popular...

as a means of overcoming destructive emotions. The name Stoicism derives from the Stoa Poikile (Ancient Greek: ἡ ποικίλη στοά), or "painted porch", a colonnade...

Through  – An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-513458-2 Critchley, Simon. Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. ISBN 978-0-19-285359-2...

Greece, the concept of eternal return was most prominently associated with Stoicism, the school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium. The Stoics believed...

belonged to the short-lived School of the Sextii, which combined Stoicism with Pythagoreanism. Sotion persuaded Seneca when he was a young man (in his...

March 2024. Critchley, Simon (2001). Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-157832-8. Archived from...

Modern Stoicism – Virtue-focused philosophical systemPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Phronesis – Ancient Greek word for a type of...

Self-Consciousness; Mastery and Servitude and (B) Freedom of Self-Consciousness: Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness. This section contains Hegel's...

In the Introduction to his 1964 translation of Meditations, the Anglican priest Maxwell Staniforth discussed the profound impact of Stoicism on Christianity...

Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014 ISBN 978-0739179673. A. A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide...

Retrieved 2020-05-17. Bushman, Richard Lyman (2008). Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-531030-6. Chambers...

logic of Pāṇini, syllogistic logic of Aristotle, propositional logic of Stoicism, and Chinese logic of Gongsun Long (c. 325–250 BCE) . In more recent times...

avoided mentioning it. "Pantagruelism", a form of stoicism, developed and applied throughout, is (among other things) "a certain gaiety of spirit confected...

contained the poem "If—". In a 1995 BBC opinion poll, it was voted the UK's favourite poem. This exhortation to self-control and stoicism is arguably Kipling's...

Stoicism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Russell, Bertrand. A History of Western Philosophy Inwood, Brad (1986). "Goal and Target in Stoicism"...

originally a challenge to Platonism, and its main opponent later became Stoicism. It is a form of hedonism insofar as it declares pleasure to be its sole intrinsic...

Testament: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-971946-4. Eaton, Michael (2009). Ecclesiastes: An Introduction and Commentary...