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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times? (www.thecollector.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With so much going on in the world beyond our control and maybe more importantly our increased access to news about those events, we need a way to process things that we can't influence, but that may impact us anyway. Stoicism can provide that in an increasingly secular society, where it used to be religion.