Popular treatments of Stoicism universally stress the Stoics’ point that some things are “up to us” and other things are not up to us, and that it’s crucially important to distinguish correctly between these. For although the Stoics raised important questions and issues, which these recent books are surfacing, the answers the Stoics offered to these questions are, in the end, deeply problematic. There are good reasons, however, to steer clear of Stoicism as a philosophy of life. The philosophy has garnered the interest of CEOs, entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley tech workers and professional athletes. There is William Irvine’s A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (2009) Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (2014) and The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (2016) and Massimo Pigliucci’s How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (2017), to name a few. Recent popular books are selling Stoicism as a guide to self-mastery, psychological resilience, inner tranquility and happiness. Over the past decade, the ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism has seen renewed public attention.
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