Stoicism
Author: first_name: St. George William Joseph
last_name: Stock
Language: English
Year: 1908

This short book is part of the <em>Philosophies Ancient and Modern</em> series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the general public.<BR><BR>In this volume, George Stock provides a concise primer on Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that maintained that the universe is governed entirely by fate, and that humans can achieve happiness only by cultivating a calm acceptance of the vicissitudes of life. Among the Stoics of the Greek and Roman world were its founder, Zeno, th