Ancient Stoicism aimed to be a complete philosophy encompassing ethics, physics and logic. Yet most modern Stoics focus primarily on ethics, and they typically adopt four Stoic principles.

He may have died laughing, but Chrysippus gifted us the blueprint for modern psychology and the Stoic wisdom that can calm our modern world.

Ancient Stoicism does not involve the simple suppression or closeting of emotions. The Stoic is not without emotions, but without painful or unhelpful emotions such as anger, envy, and greed.

Ancient Greek philosophers offered wisdom for a world of tyrants and plagues. See why these remain relevant for today.

But ancient Stoic leaders would have been at home jousting on Sunday morning political talk shows or marching in a Black Lives Matter protest. Holiday says Aurelius wrote constantly about justice ...

Here, she expresses an ancient concern which we can find today in critics of Stoicism like Martha Nussbaum — the criticism that the Stoic emphasis on minimising and ideally removing negative ...

Ancient Stoicism aimed to be a complete philosophy encompassing ethics, physics and logic. Yet most modern Stoics focus primarily on ethics, and they typically adopt four Stoic principles.

The Stoics argued that, like ants and bees, human beings are profoundly social animals. Source: PolyDot/Pixabay As the author of a book on Stoicism, I'm always asked, “What’s the difference ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Stoicism may be having a renaissance. For centuries, the ancient philosophy that originated in Greece and spread across the Roman Empire was more or less treated as extinct ...