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Stoicism: An Introduction & Contemplation
With Silas DayStoicism is a school of philosophy that hails from ancient Greece and Rome in the early parts of the 3rd century, BC. It is a philosophy of life that maximizes positive emotions, reduces negative emotions, and helps individuals to hone their virtues of character. Yet how does it do this? who are its masters and what makes it so universally well-received? Through this course, we will take a look at its history, its tents, and its major figures who are all the way from a slave to the Emperor of Rome.
An introduction to the people, ideas, and concepts within the Western Philosophical System of Stoicism.
About this course
Stoicism is a school of philosophy that hails from ancient Greece and Rome in the early parts of the 3rd century, BC. It is a philosophy of life that maximizes positive emotions, reduces negative emotions, and helps individuals to hone their virtues of character. Yet how does it do this? who are its masters and what makes it so universally well-received? Through this course, we will take a look at its history, its tents, and its major figures who are all the way from a slave to the Emperor of Rome.
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Silas Day is an up and coming voice in the emerging discussion between the 2,500 year old tradition of Buddhism and modern day life. Silas has been engaged in the obsessive study and practice of Buddhism and meditation for the past twelve years and has been teaching for the past six. Silas has practiced not only with a single type or kind of Buddhism but has practiced and studied under some of the foremost masters of these schools to help provide a more generalized and unique understanding to the question of the mind, consciousness, and how we can become the best version of ourselves