Tag: virtue-ethics
Tag: virtue-ethics
14 pages tagged virtue-ethics.
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Chapter 1: The Stoic Movement — Stoicism 101
How a shipwrecked merchant’s turn to philosophy in Athens grew into one of history’s most enduring frameworks for virtuous, resilient living.
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Chapter 2: Zeno of Citium — Stoicism 101
How a shipwrecked Phoenician merchant accidentally became the founder of one of antiquity’s most influential philosophical schools.
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Chapter 3: Seneca the Younger — Stoicism 101
A Roman statesman, playwright, and Stoic philosopher whose life of political peril and moral compromise makes his practical wisdom all the more credible.
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Chapter 10: Virtue — Stoicism 101
The Stoic claim that has scandalized philosophers for two thousand years: virtue is not merely a good — it is the only good. Wealth, health, fame, and pleasure are morally neutral.
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Chapter 11: Wisdom — Stoicism 101
Stoic wisdom is the practical art of seeing the world clearly enough to act well in it — knowing what matters, what you control, and how to behave with grace.
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Chapter 12: Courage — Stoicism 101
Stoic courage is not the absence of fear but the rational strength to act rightly — upholding moral principles even when they are uncomfortable, unpopular, or dangerous.
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Chapter 13: Justice — Stoicism 101
Stoic justice is not a legal abstraction but a practical obligation — to treat every person fairly and kindly, contribute to the common good, and advocate equity through daily conduct.
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Chapter 14: Temperance — Stoicism 101
Temperance is the Stoic art of self-mastery — governing desires, impulses, and emotions through practiced moderation so you choose responses rather than being driven by them.
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Chapter 15: Character — Stoicism 101
For the Stoics, character is the integrated practice of all four virtues — a deliberate cultivation that transforms a person and ripples outward into the world they live in.
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Chapter 20: Eudaimonia — Stoicism 101
Eudaimonia is the Stoic conception of the genuinely good life — flourishing achieved by living virtuously and in accord with reason, not by accumulating pleasure or fortune.
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Chapter 21: Stoicism on Wealth, Fame, and External Goods — Stoicism 101
Why Stoics call wealth, fame, and possessions ‘indifferents’ — neither good nor bad in themselves, but raw material your character either uses well or is corrupted by.
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Chapter 22: Achieving Eudaimonia — Stoicism 101
The Stoic blueprint for human flourishing: focus on what you control, manage your judgments, live by virtue, treat others justly, and welcome obstacles as practice.
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Chapter 24: Living According to Nature — Stoicism 101
What ‘living according to nature’ actually means in Stoicism — using your distinctly human capacities (reason, sociability) to act with kindness, cooperation, and goodwill.
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Stoicism 101 — Stoicism 101
A chapter-by-chapter synthesis of Erick Cloward’s Stoicism 101 — the history of the Stoic movement, its core doctrines, and how to apply them to emotion, relationships, adversity, and daily practice.
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