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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 ...

Perhaps, then, many Modern Stoics should consider reading more about Epicureanism, since Marcus admired Epicurus’ resilience, temperance, and approach to death, which all grew out of a science ...

Matthew Sharpe works at Deakin University. He has received ARC funding for work on philosophy and the life (until 2019). He is a coorganiser of Melbourne Stoicon-X (Oct. 29, 2022) & also teaches ...

Whence the Stoicism Craze? Some suggest that Stoicism is particularly attractive now because we live in a time of uncertainty and turmoil. I doubt this explanation. I doubt it because, according ...