Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, highlights in this quote how self-deception stands as a major obstacle to genuine knowledge, as it leads people to accept unverified beliefs and resist ...

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Cato's Suicide, by Charles Le Brun. Source: Wikicommons/public domain In the Classical World, the old religion privileged ritual over doctrine, and educated people turned instead to philosophy for ...

(The Conversation) — Stoicism isn’t just a set of ideas; it’s meant to be put into practice. The ancient philosophy is finding new fans through online communities. Perhaps it’s not so surprising. The ...

In this and in a couple of future articles, we shall consider the cultural rivals of Christianity. In the early days, the Christian faith went from being a small sect of Judaism to eventually becoming ...

Ryan Holiday isn’t a trained philosopher, but hundreds of thousands of people turn to him for a daily dose of wisdom and insight. Holiday’s status as a college dropout makes him a “pen-and-ink ...

Stoicism is an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The philosophy has been popularized within entrepreneurship in the last ten years, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Web communities have helped the ancient philosophy of Stoicism find fans in a new generation. utah778/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...