Stoicism

The Stoics’ claimed that the natural world exhibits a rational order that can be explained by appeal to existence and operations of power of reason, which they called Logos. Logos is defined as God, or reason, intelligence or mind. They believe that God, along with the soul/mind consists as a separate entity than the physical body. The stoics defined logos as entity in the universe that’s based on just mind and intellect. Stoics believe logo as an intangible object, entity of the universe.…

Power Corrupts (An depiction on how there are such things as a great leader, but there has to be boundaries so the power is corrupted by the leader.) The world has housed many amazing people. They are adventurous, cunning, smart, and religious and everyone is a little different. The people look for leaders. People want to be able to make someone else responsible. Humans like having a leader they can blame. Three men looked at a leader and defined what they thought: Plato, Machiavelli and…

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) was a Roman Emperor from about i'll say 161 to about 180. He is until this today still considered one of the most influential and important Stoic philosophers of history. This book from what I have seen is almost like a personal notebook or one could say a diary; hey were not intended to be for publication and along with that he called them a “Writing To Myself”. He died from what is believed to be cancer or a plague, furthermore going into the overall…

One of the great stoic philosophers was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus. He was a roman emperor from 161 to 180 A.D., and ruled alongside Lucius Verus. They ruled as co-emperors till Verus death in 169. He was born April 26 121 A.D., and raised by his paternal grandfather Marcus Annius Verus. He was also raised some by Lucius Catilius Severus. As a stoic philosopher his beliefs were that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgement. If both the rich and poor could take the values…

Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Roman empire was a great philosopher he wrote poweful passages. In his meditations he comes off strong and stright forward. Many people might disagree with him and call him harsh and some might even say he makes them feel bad about themsealves, but others like myself might think he changed and battered the way thinking forever. Marcus was a stoic philosopher who dealt with emotional intelligence, mind over matter, nature, etc. One if marcus arguments in the beginning…

In our novel, Julius Caesar, we find two characters, Brutus and Cassius. Brutus is a Stoic, while Cassius is an Epicurean. These two schools of philosophy teach things which would contradict each other a lot, but in specific topics, would agree and complement each other. Discussing the topic of God between Stoics and Epicureans influences each side with its own philosophy in totally different ways. Stoics would say, “To say that God is in everything is to say that nature is filled with the…

In this analysis, we will be looking at two main words, immanence and diaspora. Both words, which comes from Barber’s book refer to more than just its flat definition we often find in dictionaries, which is why we will be looking more into the theological and philosophical meaning behind them. Here we will be relating both the word to namelessness and signification, followed by connecting each of the words to the theological discourses that were described in barber’s book, which come from other…

All in favor say I? In the Republic, the human soul is divided into three parts: reason, spirit, and appetitive. Socrates then explains how people are made from gold, sliver, and bronze and how each of these categories correspond to the three classes of city the rulers (gold), soldiers (sliver), and the working class (bronze). I will begin by summarizing Plato’s understanding of the three parts of the soul. Then I will disprove Plato’s view and confirm that the Stoics view is superior to…

Words of Wisdom That Relate to Everyday Life (Three Favorite Messages From Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations) In Marcus Aurelius’ work of Meditations, he writes about every day things because he is writing to himself, since he never wished for his work to be published. He begins by talking about who he has to thank for his education and a specific, particular lesson he learned form each person whom he feels he needs to mention. For example he mentioned he learned his good morals and retaining his…

discuss is Stoicism. The definition of Stoicism is, to prepare for the worst and develop a technique for dealing with it when the worst situation arises. Stoicism and epicureanism are different because epicureans avoid pain, and people who use stoicism learn to cope with pain and feel that pain is essential to living. Stoics embrace pain and learn to live with it and to make the best out of a bad situation, instead of them letting the bad things get them down. Also another good example for…