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Stoicism is the marketable version of statistical rationality.
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Calvinism is simply baptized Stoicism; it is logically pantheistic, since it acknowledges only one effective will in the universe.
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During these centuries a system of Greek philosophy, called Stoicism, gained many adherents among the Romans.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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The concept of consciousness was largely a product of individualism, of the various movements such as Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Christianity, which supplied types of conceptual schemes that were very different from those which were appropriate to the shared life of the city-states.
BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968
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The substitution of nature for the traditional and ideal object of religion involves giving nature moral authority over man; it involves that element of Stoicism which is the synonym of inhumanity.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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Her father, a designer of women's clothing, chose her middle name, which came from Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism - that philosophy of fortitude and self-control.
Thelma Z. Lavine, who brought an accessible approach to philosophy, dies 2011
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You could read a biography of Marcus Aurelius, keeping in mind that "Stoicism Is Just So Yesterday."
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You could read a biography of Marcus Aurelius, keeping in mind that "Stoicism Is Just So Yesterday."
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What had seemed attactive about Bhuddism was that detachment, the uber-Stoicism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecution for Insulting Religion — This Time, Buddhism 2010
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What had seemed attactive about Bhuddism was that detachment, the uber-Stoicism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecution for Insulting Religion — This Time, Buddhism 2010
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