Vincent van Gogh Stoicism was a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the third century BC. Its name is actually derived from the Greek stoa, meaning porch, because that’s ...

Stoicism is. Why? It may be that the first explanation ... He is a public relations strategist whom the NYTimes piece quotes as saying "If you’re shameless enough, you can sell anything." ...

The ancient Stoics had critics in their own time: Robertson quotes one writer who said its adherents were destined to “grow old in the torpor of a sluggish and, as it were, nerveless life.” ...

Mulligan acknowledges that the fact stoicism can be boiled down to simple quotes from its original philosophers, which are then posted online, can cause a dangerous misreading of its central tenets.

Thirty-three-year-old Jess* (who didn’t want her real name to be used), who is currently single, explains that she has turned to Holiday’s books about Stoicism during the coronavirus pandemic ...

How you answer that question will shape how you judge “Beyond Stoicism,” written by three self-proclaimed modern stoics: Massimo Pigliucci, a professor of philosophy at the City College of New ...