Stoicism
One is adversely affected in their emotions, feelings, and actions toward themselves and others because of their beliefs in a philosophy. An example of this is the unemotional, lack of feeling and robot like personality of Mr. Spock of Star Trek, and not mention also Al Gore. The philosophy these two people portray is Stoicism, which was practiced widely throughout medieval times, and still now, but in very few numbers. Stoicism is a very complex philosophy, which many ideas and concept can be explained by their religion. Stoicism was first practiced as a philosophy during the Hellenistic period. It is unknown as what started the origins of stoicism. Unlike what many believe, Stoics (people who study stoicism) do in fact have emotions (such as hatred or happiness), but hold it back. This is because in stoicism, they believe everything happens for a reason, and t
In conclusion religion, God and virtue play a vital role in the stoicism philosophy. Even though the guidelines seem enormous, this has only scratched the surface of the stoicism philosophy. In the stoicism philosophy there is also its own logic, physical theory and many other aspects as well. Therefore if one might want to study stoicism, it could take months or even years to get the hang of it, but in the end, he/she will be amazed at how these people behaved, and could be influenced to become a stoic. One of the reasons why stoics believe and follow their guidelines is because of the Gods they believe in. For the stoics, God was fire (active energy) and Logos (reason). They believed too, that the law of nature was God's material presence in the universe. Also God was fate. The stoics believed fate gave humanity a certain goal that allowed for freedom only within the boundary of a
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