Zeno to Aurelius
We have the entirety of Meditations online for your reading pleasure.
Stoicism is the concept of logos, or natural law (now embodied in the natural and applied sciences) and how the rational mind constructs virtue and meaning within life from those natural laws. From the Hellenistic origins to the Roman refinement of the stoic philosophies to modern (middle ages to the information age) writings, this wiki aims to collect and index stoic works and provide a concordance to connect them to modern scientific theory and life in the twenty first century.
A common misunderstanding is to equate the philosophy of stoicism with the modern English word "stoicism" and believe that stoics did not approve of or worked to diminish emotion. Far from that, many stoics wrote about the great passions of life in approving and accepting ways, and used underpinnings of reason to celebrate passions within the philosophy.
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Meditations is the campaign journal of Marcus Aurelius and considered to be one of the major works of stoicism. The entire text of the work can be found here.
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Also see Authors for a complete list of all authors of stoic writings, Schools of Thought for Philosophers listed by teachers and pupils and Timeline for Philosophers by year.
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This wiki is currently very embryonic, having only been created on 2008-02-23. Please feel free to jump in, however it would be a good idea to focus on bringing in major stoic works and building up the primary sources before adding personal observations, lest this wiki become (yet another) internet soapbox rather than a resource.
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