A Guide to Stoicism

A Greek philosopher who abandoned the Stoics for another school was branded “the deserter.” In the ancient world, choosing how to live could mean choosing an entire philosophy of the universe.

Writing in the early twentieth century, St. George William Joseph Stock looks back to a time when philosophy held the place religion holds for many people today—and a young Greek or Roman might bind himself to a school for life. He traces the Stoics’ answer to the question of happiness: live consistently with nature, they said, and by nature they meant the fullest perfection of human reason. In an age when the old city-state had yielded to monarchy, could virtue offer a person a way to live well regardless of fortune?

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