The philosophy of Stoicism is enjoying a renaissance. After a lifetime of hearing virtually nothing about it, this school of thought has been in the news since the pandemic lockdowns.
Stoicism, as you may know, is a school of philosophy founded in ancient Greece in the third century B.C. by Zeno of Citium. Famous adherents include Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.
In modern parlance, to be a stoic is to be unemotional, like having one’s emotions botoxed. But according to the Daily Stoic, “Stoicism is either unknown or misunderstood. To the average person, this vibrant, action-oriented, and paradigm-shifting way of living has become shorthand for ’emotionlessness.’”