Word Finder - stoic

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Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.

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A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

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Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.

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Not affected by pain or distress.

synonyms

• apathetic
• impassive
• stoical

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Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.

synonyms

• expressionless
• impassive

Elisabeth was stoic, always holding her feelings close; and Emily was the effervescent, impulsive optimist.

She turned and studied his stoic profile anxiously.

Could it be that his stoic personality was the very thing that kept her interest perked?

The stoic offer made laughter bubble within her.

Alex said nothing, his stoic features giving no suggestion of what was on his mind.

His features were stoic, his face hard.

He was tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal on the 24th of October 1793, condemned to death and guillotined on the 31st of the month, displaying on the scaffold a stoic fortitude.

His features remained stoic, but she felt his concern.

He remained stoic, unwilling to let her see that her touch was affecting him.

Her father turned to her, anger and triumph on his normally stoic features.

He also gives us " natural law " 2 - a Stoic inheritance, preserving the form of an idealist appeal to systematic requirements of reason, while practically limiting its assumptions to those of intuitionalism.

In 155, together with Diogenes the Stoic and Critolaus the Peripatetic, he was sent on an embassy to Rome to justify certain depredations committed by the Athenians in the territory of Oropus.

The Stoic philosophers, especially Crates of Mallus, arguing from the love of nature for life, placed an oekumene in each quarter of the sphere, the three unknown worldislands being those of the Antoeci, Perioeci and Antipodes.

The Pharsalia of Lucan (39-65), with Cato as its hero, is essentially a Stoic manifesto of the opposition.

He owed something to Lucretius, something to the Stoic nature-pantheism, something to Anaxagoras, to Heraclitus, to the Pythagoreans, and to the Neoplatonists, who were partially known to him; above all, he was a profound student of Nicolas of Cusa, who was indeed a speculative Copernicus.

The attempt to harmonize the Stoic demonology with Roman religion led to the Lares being compared with the Greek "heroes" during the period of Greco-Roman culture, and the word is frequently translated ilpcoEs.

It was he who dared to bring an accusation against P. Egnatius Celer (the Stoic philosopher whose evidence had condemned his patron and disciple Soranus) and who endeavoured to preach a doctrine of peace and goodwill among the soldiers of Vespasian when they were advancing upon Rome.

The religious ethics of Philo - a compound of Stoic, Platonic and Neopythagorean elements - already bear the peculiar stamp which we recognize in Neoplatonism.

So far, the Stoic " nature " seems in danger of being as revolutionary as Rousseau's.

By the following day, public emotion is mounting but the Royal Family, esconced in Balmoral, remain Stoic.

Nevertheless, the most usual hypothesis is that, while the Nicomachean Ethics (E.N.) was written by Aristotle to Nicomachus, the Eudemian (E.E.) was written, not to, but by, Eudemus, and the Magna Moralia (M.M.) was written by some early disciple before the introduction of Stoic and Academic elements into the Peripatetic school.

Some express defiance, others stoic acceptance of their fate.

It's one thing to tell a creatively inspired ghost story, but it's another thing when the tale of woe is real; it has the capability of sending shivers down even the most stoic of spines.

Yes, Bruce is supposed to be a cool, calm and collected business man, but his stoic nature takes him out of the realm of human reality, and drawing the line between him and his alter-ego becomes a very difficult task.

Her gaze went from Len's stoic face to Howard and then to Connie, who looked pale.

The system, however, was not even then extinct, for it was described by Chaeremon the Stoic, a contemporary of Strabo's.

The great Stoic philosophers took the austerest line, and held that duty should always and everywhere be our only law.

His philosophy consisted in an attempt to reconcile the doctrines of his teachers Philo of Larissa and Mnesarchus the Stoic. Against the scepticism of the former, he held that the intellect has in itself a sufficient test of truth; against Mnesarchus, that happiness, though its main factor is virtue, depends also on outward circumstances.

The material is chiefly drawn from Stoic sources, e.g.

He studied grammar under Callimachus at Alexandria, and philosophy under the Stoic Ariston and the Academic Arcesilaus at Athens.

The conversation drifted on, with Jonathan occasionally contributing, but Alex was stoic in his position at the window.

Both were dressed in black, the Black God pale and stoic and Bianca smiling sadly while a stiff breeze whipped her curls around.

For Stoic discourse on this point, see especially ess.

His extraordinary, stoic bravery earned him unconditional tributory awe from the Establishment, and the affectionate family nickname ' one leg ' .

They affirmed the paradox of a transcendent and immanent God by rejecting both the Stoic pantheism and the Platonic cosmic dualism mentioned above.

Stoic philosopher who later became an adviser to the emperor Nero.

Stoic silence wouldn't do for Damon Gough.

In the days of its greatest power Rhodes became famous as a centre of pictorial and plastic art; it gave rise to a school of eclectic oratory whose chief representative was Apollonius Molon, the teacher of Cicero; it was the birthplace of the Stoic philosopher Panaetius; the home of the poet Apollonius Rhodius and the historian Posidonius.

From his Stoic teachers he learned to work hard, to deny himself, to avoid listening to slander, to endure misfortunes, never to deviate from his purpose, to be grave without affectation, delicate in correcting others, "not frequently to say to any one, nor to write in a letter, that I have no leisure," nor to excuse the neglect of duties by alleging urgent occupations.

There is no notion that may not deceive us; it is impossible to distinguish between false and true impressions; therefore the Stoic 4avravia KaTaMprrud7 (see Stoics) must be given up. There is no criterion of truth.

If we consider how Philo, while remaining a devout Jew in religion, yet managed to assimilate the whole Stoic philosophy, we can well believe that the Essenes might have been influenced, as Zeller maintained that they were, by Neo-Pythagoreanism.

In the 1st century of the Christian era, the nature of the time, with its active political struggles, naturally called Stoicism more into the foreground, yet Seneca, though nominally a Stoic, draws nearly all his suavity and much of his paternal wisdom from the writings of Epicurus.

He appears to have accepted all the Stoic doctrines except that he denied the final conflagration of the universe (see Stoics).

Ambrose's intense episcopal consciousness furthered the growing doctrine of the Church and its sacerdotal ministry, while the prevalent asceticism of the day, continuing the Stoic and Ciceronian training of his youth, enabled him to promulgate a lofty standard of Christian ethics.

Seneca 's blood-stained tragedies reworked Greek myths, arguing for a return to stoic values.

By the following day, public emotion is mounting but the Royal Family, esconced in Balmoral, remain stoic.

Gallio was the brother of Seneca, a Greek stoic philosopher who later became an adviser to the emperor Nero.

It is a true testament to the stoic attitude of the crew.

What he has underestimated is the stoic nature of the British people.

But stoic silence would n't do for Damon Gough.