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The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

CHAPTER

The Misconceptions About Stoicism

Lower case stoicism is the modern concept of an unemotional coping style and it's loosely based on the idea of stoic philosophy. People confuse stoicism with a capital s with stoicism um with a lower cases s which are actually two completely different things. The main theme of the entire book is that we should live in harmony with others forgive our enemies, avoid being alienated from others and cultivate a sense of oneness both with individuals and collectively with mankind viewing them as our brothers and our sisters and so on.

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