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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ALL You Have Viewed Too Many Free Essays, Term Papers, and Book Reports. Stoicism Stoicism The Plight of the Stoic In reading the stoic handbook by Epictetus I came to realize something that in one respect disturbed me, yet at the same time gave me a better understanding of who I am. While first reading this book of passages, I was shocked at the apparent coldness and lack of compassion that surrounds the stoic ideology. In various excepts, Epictetus speaks of the benefits in remaining non-emotionally attached to things that we as humans instinctively hold close to us, such as a wife or a child. He preaches that no matter how grim or misfortunate something might be, we can not take pity on ourselves. We must look at events that occur in any given day’s discourse, whether good or bad, simply as facts of life beyond our control and immediately move on. Furthermore, Stoicism emphasizes the only harm one feels from an action is strictly their reaction to the action, not the event its self. Of course it is natural to want to reject such an uncompassionate, distant philosophy. Upon further reading however I came to realize that there is some merit in what stoicism and reacting based on reason rather then emotion has to offer stoic, life, stoicism, about, much, things, epictetus, one, just, value, out, something, rather, philosophy, death, way, should, say, same, place, passage, material, however, good, bad, another, am, against, though, ourselves, live, idea, happiness, goes, emotion, control Word Count: 1576 Acceptance_Essays American_History Anatomy_&_Physiology Animal_Science_&_Zoology Anthropology Architecture Art Astronomy Aviation Biographies Book_Reports Business Computers Creative_Writing Current_Events Economics Education Engineering English Environmental_Science Ethics European_History Film_&_TV Foreign_Languages Geography Government_&_Politics Health_&_Beauty History_Other Human_Sexuality Legal_Issues Marketing Mathematics Medicine Miscellaneous Music Mythology Philosophy Physics Poetry Political_Science Psychology Religion Science Shakespeare Social_Issues Sociology Speech Sports_&_Recreation Supernatural Technology Theater Theses_&_Dissertations

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