“Stoicism and Self-Help Strategies” is the topic of a University of Wyoming Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies lecture from Donald Robertson, a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, ...

Explore Cleanthes's famous Stoic quote on accepting fate, alongside the remarkable true story of how a penniless night-shift water carrier became the head of the Stoic school.

The University of Wyoming Department of Philosophy and Religion will host a lecture from professor and author Matthew Sharpe at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13, in Room 127 of the UW College of Business ...

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the last famous Stoic philosopher of antiquity, contains a curious passage where the Roman emperor thanks his painting tutor, Diognetus, for having introduced him ...

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Nero banished Musonius to Gyaros, the Alcatraz of the Mediterranean. Source: Olaf Tausch/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 3.0. Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, ...

NEW YORK, N.Y.—The history of Stoic philosophy is an education in the school of hard knocks. Stoicism’s founder, Zeno of Citium, discovered philosophy after being shipwrecked on a voyage to Peiraeus.