Stoicism

Buddhism and Stoicism: Comparing and Contrasting Philosopher Epictetus, the creator of Stoicism, and Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the creator of Buddhism, share similar beliefs and morals despite having different views on what makes our planet work. Stoicism revolves around the belief of treating things that our in our lives as if they were borrowed. Buddhism also shares the same belief, but in a different context. According to Buddhism, the desires that we have in life are the cause of our…

Conformism & Stoicism (A detailed response to a quote by Colin Wilson) What does it mean to be a conformist? Oxford Dictionaries defines the word conformist as, “a person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices.” So what did the famous writer, Colin Wilson mean when he said, “The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” This quote derived from Wilson is a very popular, and well analyzed quote, so…

The philosophies of Stoicism and Skepticism offer differing ideals that one could almost consider being on opposite ends of the spectrum, yet both believe their way of life leads them to the success and truth humans are after. But which one offers the most logical position? Epictetus presents his thought of Stoicism in The Encheiridion, where he offers advice on how to obtain happiness. David Hume rejects the idea of Stoicism in his essay “The Skeptic”. In the article Hume highlights some of the…

Zeno of Citium created the school of philosophy known as Stoicism. The main believe or aspect of this school is modesty. Document #6.2 explains briefly about not boasting, for example, about abstinence to those who do not share the same beliefs about sexuality as you. Another fundamental belief that is talked about is the acceptance of not being able to control everything. In document #6.2 the idea behind this is that the power to control everything belongs to god and that since you do not have…

monuments as realistic forms. The Romans used this style of art. The philosophy of Stoicism was especially influenced in Rome. Stoicism featured the importance of virtue duty and strength in life. The goal of Stoicism was to avoid suffering by living a life of not really caring, and of self control. The Stoic's life should be based on reason and based on peace within the universe. The beliefs of Stoicism helped create a strong citizenship in Rome.…

Stoicism To counter stoicism, the play presents itself first as a stoic world. Frye indicates in his essay that Albany and Edgar stands for the moralist (111); and Moretti in “Great Eclipse” argues that King Lear is in-between an old feudalist society and a new absolutist society. However, these characters does not stand for a vague, universal ethics; and feudalism, as a political concept, must have a reciprocal relationship with cultural doctrine as to integrate the social and the political. I…

One similarity between Buddhism and Stoicism is both focus on the importance of mindfulness. In Buddhism "awareness begins with remembering what we tend to forget" (Batchelor 58). In Stoicism "...reflection... will make us appreciate how wonderful it is that we are alive and have the opportunity to fill this day with activity" (Irvine 71). Once we become mindful of what's presented to us in that moment we have a more positive outlook of life. Because, we took the time to embrace whose and what's…

Stoicism can be defined as a study of life stating that everything that happens and that is has a reason, and a logical reason at that. In Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (which were never meant to be kept, let alone read by anyone) he discusses many ideas that encapsulate stoicism. The three lines I have chosen are much too long to put them into a three-point-thesis. Stoicism, as described by Marcus Aurelius in Meditations covers the confusing practice that we call life. Marcus begins his…

to demur the status quo. One of Andrei’s identifying traits is his belief in Stoicism, a Greek school of philosophy that taught that virtue is based on knowledge, and that the wise ignore and remain indifferent to suffering and the vicissitudes of fortune. Chekhov deliberately crafts Andrei to partake in this belief system to weaken his character and establish his timid personality; because Andrei believes in Stoicism, he does not question or attempt to change anything unsatisfactory in his…

In the book “On Academic Scepticism,” the argument of the senses is presented between the Stoics and the Academics. This argument is represented by Lucullus who defends the Stoics view that the senses contain the highest truth, and Cicero who represents the Skeptics who believe that the senses are faulty. Lucullus believes that the senses are clear and certain, claiming that “there is a great deal of truth in the senses, providing they are healthy and properly functioning and all obstacles and…