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Stoicism
Imagine losing everything—your city in turmoil, your fortune gone, the world shifting beneath your feet. Would you crumble, or could you learn to stand unshaken? In ancient Athens, as the pillars of old certainty cracked, one school dared to ask: what can we hold onto when fortune turns against us?The world that birthed Stoicism was not a tranquil one. The old city-states had lost their power. After Alexander the Great’s conquests, empires sprawled and the close ties between citizenship and happiness were broken. People lived with uncertainty. Philosophy was no longer just a contest of…
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