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- Ryan Holiday. Ryan Holiday is a shining example of how ancient Stoicism can be applied to the modern world. He has a knack for taking complex philosophical ideas and making them easy to understand and use in our everyday lives.
- Donald J. Robertson. Donald J. Robertson is a beacon of knowledge in the world of modern Stoicism, blending his background in psychology with ancient wisdom to offer practical guidance for the mind and soul.
- William B. Irvine. William B. Irvine is a key figure in bringing Stoicism into the spotlight of contemporary life, offering a bridge between ancient philosophy and modern challenges.
- Phil Van Treuren. An author, artist and entrepreneur, Phil Van Treuren’s work focuses on distilling the concepts of Stoic philosophy to their simplest forms, and he publishes both children’s books about Stoicism and adaptations of classical Stoic writing for modern beginners.
- I. Book Review: Lives of The Stoics
- II. Meet The Authors: Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
- III. 5 Takeaway Lessons from Lives of The Stoics
- V. What Is Stoicism?
- VI. How Did Stoicism Begin?
- VII. Who Were The Stoic Philosophers?
A wealthy but unhappy merchant loses everything. It turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to him. A boy is sold to a violent slave owner. A few decades later, the world’s most powerful gather at his feet to hear what he has to teach. A lawyer with talent and ambition reads and writes his way out of exile. His student becomes his derange...
Ryan Holidayis one of the world’s leading authorities on Stoicism and how it applies to real life. With his timeless trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, and Stillness Is the Key—and the bestselling The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, Holiday has introduced millions of readers around the wo...
All We Control Is How We Respond As a slave, Epictetus was reminded every day that he didn’t have much control. But from the lectures of Musonius Rufus and his own study of Stoicism, he came to understand what he later called our “most efficacious gift.” It’s what separates us humans from other animals, the essence of human nature—the power to alwa...
Stoicism was a school of philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC. Its name is derived from the Greek stoa, meaning porch, because that’s where Zeno first taught his students. The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happines...
Stoicism began around 304 BC. Fittingly, it began with misfortune. Zeno was a Phoenician merchant. His family made their fortune trading Tyrian, the purple dye used to dye the robes of kings. On a voyage across the Mediterranean, Zeno was shipwrecked. Zeno made it safely to shore where he watched his ship and his cargo sink. His irreplaceable fortu...
The ancient Stoic philosophers came from almost every imaginable background. One was a slave, another was emperor. One was a water carrier, another a famous playwright. Some were merchants, others were independently wealthy. Some were Senators and others were soldiers. What they all had in common was the philosophy that they practiced. Whether they...
Jun 13, 2020 · Stoicism as a philosophy for an ordinary life — TEDxAthens. Description: How to change your life for the better by practicing ancient Greco-Roman philosophy as a way of life. Massimo Pigliucci ...
- If You Want a Smooth Flow of Life, Live According to Nature. At the core of Stoic teaching is the founder Zeno’s idea that a smooth flow of life (euroia biou) comes from “living in agreement with nature.”
- Happiness Isn’t Found in Things, but in Virtue Alone – It’s All About What We Value and the Choices We Make. The early Stoics often disagreed about many particulars, but they all agreed that for human beings the happy life was to be found only in the pursuit of virtue (arete, or human excellence), a pursuit that involved tempering our desires, aversions, and impulses so that they align better with the four cardinal virtues of temperance (sophrosune), courage (andreia), justice (dikaiosune), and practical wisdom (phronesis).
- We Don’t Control External Events, We Only Control Our Thoughts, Opinions, Decisions and Duties. When we keep externals in the proper perspective, we gain a steadiness (eustatheia) that helps us along life’s way.
- We’ve Each Been Given All the Inner Resources We Need to Thrive. One of the biggest mistakes about Stoicism is to miss its positivity and joy. The Stoics weren’t bereft of emotion—they just wanted to eliminate toxic emotions and replace them with good emotions (eupatheia), which included rational wishing (boulesis; as opposed to blind hope), rational caution (eulabeia; as opposed to blind fear), and positive emotions like gratitude (eucharistia), joy (chara), and love for others (philostorgia).
Nov 2, 2020 · Books, poems and plays during this period amplified this exaggerated stoicism, and some of Britain’s best-loved work from the 19th Century positively drips with it.
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living is a daily motivational book of stoic philosophy co-authored by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. It is Holiday's fifth book and Hanselman's debut as an author.
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We tend to use the words ‘stoic’ and ‘stoicism’ to refer to a sort of ‘stiff upper lip’ attitude to life – the sort of thing that Rudyard Kipling recommended in his classic poem, ‘If’. Below, we’ve picked five of the best ancient works on Stoicism and related philosophical ideas.
