The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

Stoicism is Not a Dead Philosophy

Jon Brooks

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Someone pointed me to a Tucker Max tweet calling Stoicism a dead philosophy, backed by a study suggesting that a naive endorsement of Stoic ideology might actually be bad for wellbeing. It is a serious challenge, so I wanted to take it seriously.

In this one I dig into the study itself, into the claim, and into the common misreadings of Stoicism underneath both. The real question I am chasing: does Stoicism do more harm than good, or is something getting lost in translation?

The tweet: twitter.com/TuckerMax

The study: psyarxiv.com

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