A chara, – I was amazed to read Róisín Lanigan’s stimulating essay on stoicism only to find no mention of its great philosophical rival, epicureanism (“Pro tips from ancient thinkers: why are people ...

"Some things are up to us and some are not up to us." This thought, from the ancient philosopher Epictetus, is one of the foundational aspects of Stoicism. The things that are up to us are inside of ...

A FIELD GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE: 53 Brief Lessons for Living. By Massimo Pigliucci. Basic Books. 160 pages. $12. While many followers of philosophy might opt for Epicureanism as a roadmap to an ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) If you peruse the philosophy section of your local bookshop, you'll probably find a number of books on Stoicism – an ancient philosophy enjoying a renaissance today. But ...

Chief among the schools of ancient philosophy were the Academics led by Plato, the Peripatetics by Aristotle, the Epicureans by Epicurus, and the Stoics founded by Zeno of Citium. Only Stoicism, now ...

Of course, this is selfish—and like most selfish things, also short-sighted. Because this article almost certainly introduced tens of thousands of people to a topic I care about, people who would be ...

Since retiring from the University of Notre Dame, North Carolina native Tom Morris has made it his business to take philosophy off campus and into the everyday world. Through his Wilmington-based ...

Ryan Holiday made his bones as a PR guy and then revolted against the industry in his tell-all book Trust Me, I’m Lying and then, after much soul-searching, came to embrace the ancient philosophy of ...

If you peruse the philosophy section of your local bookshop, you’ll probably find a number of books on Stoicism – an ancient philosophy enjoying a renaissance today. But where are the Epicureans? Both ...