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Stoicism
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Stoicism. A Graeco-Roman school of philosophy founded at
Athens by Zeno of Citium (335–263BC). The system is a form of materialistic
pantheism. God is the immanent all-pervading energy by which the natural world is created and sustained. He is also the world reason or
‘Logos’ which manifests itself in the order and beauty of the world. To the Stoic the good man is the wise man, and his wisdom consists in conformity to nature, i.e. in living according to the law of the universe embodied in the Divine reason.
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A New Stoicism.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; BECKER, Lawrence. A New Stoicism. Princeton: Princeton University...explicitly this vein within ancient Stoicism (p. 23). Chapter 2 seeks to correct...self-mastery. He distances his new Stoicism from that of his ancient forerunners...
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STOICISM IS MORE THAN A STIFF UPPER LIP
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/4/2003; 397 words
; ...MARCH 3 OP-ED COLUMN, "THE VIRTUE OF STOICISM," RAISES IMPORTANT CLINICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL...TRAUMA AND HOW WE TREAT IT. BUT TRUE STOICISM IS FAR MORE THAN KEEPING A STIFF UPPER...cognitive psychology. The basic tenet of stoicism was that emotions are judgments. When...
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Cultural stoicism and its impact on organizational agility: A proposition for military healthcare organizations
Magazine article from: Military Medicine; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...example of an external constraint is stoicism defined as [a sensory] "indifference to pleasure or pain." Cultural stoicism expands the scope of this construct...well-established that cultural stoicism is a relevant factor in why certain...
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Health: Health Check: Stoicism might save the NHS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/16/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...but simply a matter of tolerance. Tolerance and stoicism are, indeed, qualities whose supply has diminished...stiff upper lips, a campaign to make coping cool and stoicism sexy. Stoicism, not monetarism, is the way to save the NHS. An...
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THE VIRTUE OF STOICISM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/3/2003; ; 700+ words
; IN RECENT DECADES, STOICISM AND EMOTIONAL RESERVE, ONCE CONSIDERED...There can be such a thing as too much stoicism, and it's probably true that different...about their feelings. Who knows, stoicism may be coming back into vogue. Philosopher...
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Stoicism, safety concerns may limit pain management.(Geriatric Psychiatry)
Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...to pain medications is low--fueled largely by patients' stoicism, beliefs about pain and aging, and concerns about safety...label, and hiding their nonadherence from family members. Stoicism was a common theme, he said, with patients minimizing their...
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Stoicism, safety issues may limit pain Tx in elderly.(Geriatric Medicine)
Magazine article from: Family Practice News; 5/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...adherence to pain medications is low fueled largely by patients' stoicism, beliefs about pain and aging, and concerns about safety...label, and hiding their nonadherence from family members. Stoicism was a common theme, he said, with patients minimizing their...
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TROOPS' STOICISM IN WAR ON TERROR HAS ITS LIMITS.(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 7/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...hardship. Boot camp and military academies offer hard lessons in stoicism, both in its practice and, in some cases, in the actual...ask his troops to be stoic; but he needs to know that their stoicism, and that of their families, is not limitless. Nancy Sherman...
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In morally turbulent times, Stoicism makes a comeback Some finding comfort in ancient philosophy that stresses personal integrity
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/14/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...County, Calif., writer whose book on the Stoics has been revived of late. "Suddenly, interest in Stoicism has been galvanized." Stoicism was born three centuries before the birth of Jesus, when Zeno of Citium started his own school around...
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Older patients' stoicism hinders pain management.(Geriatrics)(Report)
Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...to pain medications is low--fueled largely by patients' stoicism, beliefs about pain and aging, and concerns about safety...label, and hiding their nonadherence from family members. Stoicism was a common theme, he said, with patients minimizing their...
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Stoicism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Stoicism , school of philosophy founded by Zeno...Rhodes, who in the 2d cent. BC introduced Stoicism into Rome. He and his pupil Posidonius...officiis. The Romans, who had received Stoicism more cordially than they did any other...
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stoicism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
stoicism Stoic philosophy was developed in Athens in the third century bc , and reached...although in later life he moved away from Rome to concentrate on writing. Stoicism denied the importance of all bodily conditions, and emotions were always...
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...their different ways all aim to teach Stoicism . Most of his nine plays are on subjects...constituting a sort of elementary course in Stoicism. These writings were widely read in...so that there is an undercurrent of Stoicism in much of early 18th-cent. thinking...
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Carneades
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...his attacks on "dogmatic" philosophies, particularly the stoicism of Chrysippus, Carneades went far beyond the skepticism of...account for any of their supposed successes. The determinism of stoicism he attempted to subvert by suggesting that man's free will...
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Chrysippus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...history of Platonism, but eventually threw in his lot with Stoicism. Any influence exercised by Cleanthes, however, must have...which are lost — mark a move away from the "poetic" stoicism of Cleanthes to a more rigid and logical systematization of...
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