# Stoicism

- Id: `stoicism`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/stoicism/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `c99023faaacca2fbdc17dc7677182e56619cac556d10a88932252992701d9484`

## Summary

Stoicism makes virtue the decisive good and disciplines judgement, action, and desire within a cosmos understood as rationally ordered.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 34 passages across 20 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Ancient testimonia on Carneades, On Duties. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:seneca.epistulae_morales:123.15",
    "passage:seneca.de_tranquillitate_animi:3",
    "passage:seneca.de_beneficiis:2.20"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "stoïcisme",
    "stoicism"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 20,
    "passages": 34,
    "thinkers": 10,
    "traditions": 6
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
        "author": "Carneades",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/carneades/ancient-testimonia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_officiis",
        "title": "On Duties",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-officiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_fato",
        "title": "On Fate",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-fato/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_natura_deorum",
        "title": "On the Nature of the Gods",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-natura-deorum/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cleanthes.pearson_fragments",
        "title": "Pearson: Cleanthes fragments",
        "author": "Cleanthes",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cleanthes/pearson-fragments/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.epictetus_introduction",
        "title": "Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/epictetus-introduction/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.talbot_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/talbot-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.gay_science",
        "title": "The Gay Science",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/gay-science/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.beyond_good_evil",
        "title": "Beyond Good and Evil",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/beyond-good-evil/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.daybreak",
        "title": "Daybreak",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/daybreak/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.wagner_bayreuth",
        "title": "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/wagner-bayreuth/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.genealogy_morality",
        "title": "On the Genealogy of Morality",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/genealogy-morality/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.how_young_man_should_study_poetry",
        "title": "How a Young Man Should Study Poetry",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/how-young-man-should-study-poetry/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_beneficiis",
        "title": "On Benefits",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-beneficiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_tranquillitate_animi",
        "title": "On Tranquillity of Mind",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-tranquillitate-animi/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    },
    {
        "id": "zeno.pearson_fragments",
        "title": "The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes: Zeno Section, Edited by A. C. Pearson",
        "author": "Zeno of Citium",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/zeno/pearson-fragments/"
    }
]
```