This is many things, but it’s not a coherent moral philosophy. The ancient Stoics had critics in their own time: Robertson quotes one writer who said its adherents were destined to “grow old ...

The ancient Stoic philosophers are often dismissed as joyless and boring intellectuals. But the Stoics were very interested in the pursuit of things like happiness and success; they merely pursued ...

Thousands of social media accounts were sharing quotes and aphorisms that went ... MacLellan, meanwhile, points to another pillar of Stoic philosophy that he believes has teachings and associated ...

The Latin expression “amor fati”, which means “love of fate”, was 20th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempt to summarise the stoic idea. When something happens to us that we ...