The Difference between stoicism and Stoicism

Against being unemotional and the case for a “Passionate Stoicism”

Against being unemotional and the case for a “Passionate Stoicism”

I do not withdraw the wise man from the category of man, nor do I deny to him the sense of pain as though he were a rock that has no feelings at all. — Seneca, Letters, 71

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