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stoicism
has definitions from the fields of Greek antiquity,philosophy
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[ noun ] an indifference to pleasure or pain
Synonyms Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history , the one which reached Christianity by_the_way_of Stoicism through the Church_Fathers of Late Antiquity . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)He wondered if it wore the old anxiety , or the old , taut stoicism . But there was no need , he remembered , for his hand to reach_out , for his face to show concern or stoicism . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (Greek antiquity,philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
Used in print (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)Accordingly we may speak_of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley 's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley 's `` Invictus '' , and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise . Accordingly we may speak_of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley 's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley 's `` Invictus '' , and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise . Related terms |
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