Philosophy: Stoicism Recently I have been running across this old way of thinking. It is an entire school of thought which was born more than 2000 years ago. It was developed during the roman empire,

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Philosophy: Stoicism Recently I have been running across this old way of thinking. It is an entire school of thought which was born more than 2000 years ago. It was developed during the roman empire, especially by Seneca (born in Corduba that is Cordoba in the south of Spain nowadays) and by Marco Aurelio (a roman imperator, the one who was killed in the film "Gladiator" by a very strong hug). This stream of the philosophy deal with several human questions as for example how to deal with anger or how to deal with adversing situations. However, the part I am interesting the most is their ideas about theology and moral. Especially, I would like to learn more about how this ideas influenced first Christianity groups as they coincided when the Christianism was growing in Rome and for that reason we can see many parallelism between these both span of ideas. Finally, I would like to finish the note with a quote of the Seneca work: "We are more often frighten than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality". Just one last thing, if you don't just correct my note-entry but you could propose me some readings about this rather interesting theme, I will really appreciate it.

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Thank you Rodrigo! I think that I could start with Aurleio's Meditations. Many people have recommended it. It's a very interesting theme!

Philosophy: Stoicism

Recently I have been running across this old way of thinking. It is an entire school of thought which was born more than 2000 years ago.

It was developed during the roman empire*, especially by Seneca (born in Corduba, nowadays Cordoba located at the south of Spain) and by Marco Aurelio, a roman imperator, emperor (the one who was killed in the film "Gladiator" by a very strong hug).

This stream of the philosophy philosophical current deals with several human questions such as for example how to deal with anger or how to deal with adversity situations.

However, the part I am most interested the most in is their ideas about theology and morality. Especially, I would like to learn more about how these ideas influenced the first Christianity groups as they coincided when with the Christianity that was growing in Rome, since we can see many parallelisms between these both span their respective of ideas.

Finally, I would like to finish the note with a quote of the Seneca's work: "We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality".

Just one last thing, if you don't just correct my note-entry but you could propose me suggest some readings books/articles about this rather interesting theme, I would really appreciate it.

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* Stoicism originates from Greece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism

Hi Sergio I will first give you some corrections on this text, and then suggest a couple of readings on this subject since I am really into it too. I would use specifically instead of especially when talking about Seneca and Marco Aurelio. "This stream of philosophy deals..." Use "adverse", "adversing" doesn´t exist. "I am interested..." When you say "how this ideas..." : "This" is used for a singular idea, and "these" is for two or more. Sounds the same but they are not. There are a couple of errors in the use of articles (the) and some ideas are repetitive. But it sends a clear idea of what you want to say, now it´s only a matter of polishing it. Great work! ___ And about stoicism, I also came across this philosophy and way of life a couple years ago. Nowadays, in english, when your are called "stoic", it means someone that is unbothered in troubling situations, someone that remains calm and in control, levelheaded. And yes, this is one part of the philosophy, but not all of it. I found that stoicism was created by Zeno of Cyprus in Greece. Here´s a youtube video that thought me a lot about it and might help you too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9OCA6UFE-0 And I just finished reading Marco Aurelio´s Meditations, and it helped me a lot to understand more about this philosophy. So I would definitely recommend it. PS. It mentions Christianity only once. Great work on your english! Keep it up!

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