While we have a natural disposition to grow in response to adversity and trauma, a weak mindset can impede this growth. To strengthen our mindset, we can turn to the wisdom of the ancient stoic philosophers. The stoics recognized that adversity is an unavoidable part of human existence, and ...
Keywords: Epictetus; Stoicism; reflexive pronoun; verbal contexts; self- formation; rhetoric Introduction and aim Over the last decades, scholarly debates about the notions of self and per sonhood in ancient philosophy have viewed the Stoic Epictetus (ca. AD 55–135) as a particularly ...
In ancient Greek, the adjectiveatheosmeant "godless." It was a derogatory term used to describe someone who did not worship the gods of the time or who was not sufficiently devout in his worship of these gods. Around the 5th century BCE, the term came to mean the intentional denial of ...
"Philosophy.To the Greeks, who coined the word, philosophy was primarily the love of wisdom. Socrates, a master of philosophers, did not profess to have wisdom or knowledge, but he sought them. His philosophy was always a quest, never a body of knowledge or doctrine. Some Greek philosophers...
Question: According to Skeptics, what is the goal of life? a. Pleasure b. Wealth c. Finding truth d. Tranquility Skepticism: Particularly, skepticism was fundamentally developed in ancient Greek and India as a philosophical doctrine with concrete objectives. In a...
What type of government did Plato believe in? What is the historical significance of Athenian democracy? What flaws did Plato observe within Athenian democracy? What did republic mean in Ancient Rome? What does republic mean in Ancient Rome? What was Tacitus' view of the Roman Republic? What ...
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail ...
In both the ancient and existentialist traditions, too, philosophy was a source of, if not comfort, at least reconciliation to the world. The Stoics recommended daily philosophical exercises to reduce mental disquiet, and Camus advised a philosophically grounded rousing defiance in response to life’...
On philosophyasawayoflife, see PierreHadot,What is Ancient Philosophy?(Cambridge,Mass.:HarvardUniversity Press,2002)and his collection of essays,idem,Philosophy asaWay of Life(Ox-ford: Blackwell, 1995). On Maimonides’Guide of the Perplexedas aguideto away of life, seeJosefStern,TheMatter ...
These two conceptions of philosophy have evolved in parallel throughout the ancient world, during the Middle Ages, and into the Renaissance and Enlightenment. However, throughout much of 20th century philosophy turned academic and technical, with the practical philosophy strand not only neglected, but...