stoic-estoic: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is estoic?

  • One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain.
  • A member of an originally Greek school of philosophy, founded by Zeno about 308 B.C., believing that God determined everything for the best and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Its later Roman form advocated the calm acceptance of all occurrences as the unavoidable result of divine will or of the natural order.

    Membre d'una escola de filosofia originalment grega, fundada per Zenó cap al 308 aC, creient que Déu ho determinava tot per al millor i que la virtut és suficient per a la felicitat. La seva forma romana posterior defensava l'acceptació tranquil·la de tots els esdeveniments com a resultat inevitable de la voluntat divina o de l'ordre natural.

  • Seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive: "stoic resignation in the face of hunger” ( John F. Kennedy).
  • Of or relating to the Stoics or their philosophy.

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