What Is Stoicism? by Tanner Campbell and Kai Whiting

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The word stoic has undergone an odd transformation over time. Today, we use it to mean someone who is indifferent to pleasure or pain. In ancient times, however, a Stoic was a member of a philosophical school whose original members gathered in Athens at a painted colonnade — or stoa in Greek. The modern meaning of the word gives some people the impressi…