Everything You Should Know About Ancient Stoicism (Episode 59)
Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied
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Stoicism: An Elevator Pitch
Stoicism was founded by Zeno of Sitium in Athens in 300 BC or around 300 BC. Stoicism exists in varying degrees of popularity in ancient Rome and Greece until around one hundred A.D. When it becomes superseded by Christianity as kind of the dominant cultural philosophical or religious outlook on how to live. We often hear a lot from the late Stoics, that's Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus. But Stoicism didn't happen in a vacuum. It was part of a, it had a lot of philosophical inspiration. So you can talk about the development of Stoicism historically, but I as a as a philosopher often think of it as a story
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