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However, unlike Cynics and Epicureans, Stoics retained an interest in public life and social relationships, grounding these interests in human nature. Considering it universal, they scorned the polis ...

Essentially, the message of stoicism is to put up with it, to endure misery as part of the great web. Epicureanism is about finding happiness in life and getting stuck in to change things that don ...

In Competition No. 3320 you were invited to submit a poem extolling Epicureanism over Stoicism or the other way round. Stoicism is enjoying something of a revival, embraced by everyone from ...

You may well know someone — you, perhaps? — who is stoic, epicurean, skeptical or cynical. That’s because these four adjectives represent philosophical and psychological shortcuts for coping ...

The Epicureans and Stoics were at loggerheads from their very beginnings. Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E) and Zeno of Citium (c. 335-c. 263 B.C.E), Stoicism’s founder, were fellow residents of Athens, and ...

Both Stoicism and Epicureanism, then, were designed to help followers manage periods of uncertainty and adversity, and in that respect they both perform commendably. Notable Stoics even tended to ...

By asking us to reconsider texts by the Epicurean, Stoic, Platonist, Christian and Renaissance philosophers, Hadot’s wonderful book opens up a treasure trove of practical exercises, which speak ...