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Stoicism began in Athens around 300 BCE when Zeno of Citium began teaching in the Stoa Poikile, the painted porch that gave the philosophy its name. Zeno had previously studied und...
The Stoic moral system rests on four cardinal virtues: wisdom (sophia), courage (andreia), justice (dikaiosune), and temperance (sophrosune). Wisdom is the capacity to judge what i...
The most recognizable Stoic teaching is the dichotomy of control: some things are up to us (judgments, choices, intentions, desires, aversions) and others are not (the body, reputa...
The Stoics left behind a remarkably practical toolkit for daily life, much of it centered on small, repeatable exercises. The day typically begins with morning preparation, a brief...
Stoicism is often caricatured as emotionless detachment, but the Stoics did not seek to abolish feeling. They distinguished the destructive passions, rage, envy, fear, from healthy...
Memento mori, "remember you must die," is not morbid but a sharpening. Each day is the only day one can act in, and most grievances dissolve under the weight of that awareness. The...
Stoic ideas have shaped modern psychology in ways that practitioners often do not recognize. Albert Ellis, the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, explicitly cited Epicte...