what is stoicism?

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what is stoicism?

anonymous · Answer

The endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.

anonymous · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism

anonymous · Answer

The philosophy of stoicism as espoused by the Greeks (notably Zeno, 334 BC-262 BC) saw negative emotions as failures to act with wisdom and virtue. They believed that virtue and ethics were features of nature, and that self-control and reason were important to attaining well-being and happiness.

anonymous · Answer

Belief that was common in ancient Greek society.

anonymous · Answer

2.
an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. The school taught that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge, and that the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason (also identified with Fate and Providence) that governs nature, and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain.