A Guide to Stoicism

by St. George Stock

Book Overview

If you strip Stoicism of its paradoxes and its wilful misuse of language, what is left is simply the moral philosophy of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, dashed with the physics of Heraclitus. Stoicism was not so much a new doctrine as the form under which the old Greek philosophy finally presented itself to the world at large. It owed its popularity in some measure to its extravagance. A great deal might be said about Stoicism as a religion and about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516907221
• ISBN13: 9781516907229
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"