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Definition of stoic in English: stoicnoun ˈstəʊɪkˈstoʊɪk 1A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining. 坚忍克己者，具有很强忍耐力的人 Example sentencesExamples - We see livestock dotting the hillsides as we climb and I wonder what sort of doughty stoics would choose to farm such challenging country.
- The ideal stoic would go about life as an actor in a play, playing the roll they are assigned.
- And it varies hugely and nearly everybody asks that question largely because they're embarrassed, they know about heroes and stoics who can put up with the most awful injuries and not make any complaints.
- Beth's husband Kevin, a charismatic history teacher, emerges as a stoic, entirely but mutely aware of his wife's distracted love.
- If you are on one end of the bell curve and need minimal drugs to treat your pain, you're a stoic, a good chap.
- The modest, by contrast, realise that, in the sum of history and geography, they're but a tiny, passing crater, and the stoics know that human pain has to be suffered and can't just be railed against.
- My friends and colleagues could not understand how I could be such a stoic in the face of losing out on a four-figure sum.
- He is a noble stoic who is by far the most pure character in the play.
2A member of the ancient philosophical school of Stoicism. 斯多葛派学者 Example sentencesExamples - For the Stoics, the work of the polis and its citizens and the work of the cosmopolis and its citizens are the same: both aim to improve the lives of the citizens.
- As a concept, it has affinities with Plato's anima mundi (world soul), and the Stoics ' pneuma.
- The Stoics attacked the Categories on the assumption that this treatise is on language and about linguistic expressions.
- For doctrines in these areas, he turns to the Stoics and Peripatetics.
- He was a member of a group known in ancient times as the Stoics, and he is chiefly remembered as the author of Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, generally known in English as Letters from a Stoic.
- His heroes are the Stoics - especially Epicurus - and Marx.
- For the Stoics were thorough-going empiricists and believed that sense-impressions lie at the foundation of all of our knowledge.
- Here the Stoics might sound like Plato and Aristotle.
- Approximately half the entry is on the Greek moralists Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
- The ancient Greek Stoics seem to me to have done better with these distinctions than the Epicureans, on whom I focus in this paper.
- The view that emotions are irrational was eloquently defended by the Epicureans and Stoics.
- The Stoics developed a sophisticated psychological theory to explain how the advent of reason fundamentally transforms the world view of human beings as they mature.
- A cognitive impression was defined by the Stoics as an impression from what is, stamped and impressed in exact accordance with what is, and such as could not be from what is not.
- On his view, the development which takes a human being to virtue does not involve a transformation of the kind posited by the Stoics.
- The ancient Stoics seem to have taken a similar line.
- There are some important parallels in the Hellenistic Stoics and Epicureans to certain themes in Zhuangzi.
- Since 1993, I've gone through a great deal of philosophy, in particular works by the Roman stoics such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Cicero.
- There is much in all this that strikes a familiar chord, appearing in some ways as an extension of classical doctrines of self-determination that reach back to the Stoics and beyond.
- One school of ancient philosophers, the Stoics, developed a distinctive view of Medea as part of their ethics and psychology.
- Later ethical theories distinguished them, and the second, more austere position, that of the Stoics, was generally thought to have won in claiming Plato as its ancestor.
adjective ˈstəʊɪkˈstoʊɪk 1 a look of stoic resignation another term for stoical Example sentencesExamples - And in that kind of instance you would need a judiciary that is stout and stoic in the face of differences of opinion with the regime.
- The movie detective is an archetypal Western hero: stoic, logical, and doggedly determined.
- The speaker and the guide walked out of the shelter, in their stoic marching stance.
- Showing no signs of senility, only stoic, hard-won wisdom, The Cave is a work of a master.
- Marilyn was a stoic and determined woman, with a clear vision.
- So other emotions, such as being scared or stoic, could come as a surprise.
- I sat and watched with some mates and we all thought the second half performance, whilst brave and stoic, was also cheating the fans.
- All the handmaidens cheered, but the Lady stood to the back of them, her face stoic.
- His mood seems to have been one of stoic resignation, rather than despair, as reported by James Sharp, a leading Scots Presbyterian.
- It would take more than controversy over his age to keep this stoic ex-mayor of Lancaster down.
- Some looking stoic, others with tears quietly trickling down their caved in faces.
- I cannot say these things matter-of-factly: they are too painful, and I have never been stoic.
- Students who were not placed in their schools of choice were not as stoic.
- He and his pals are stoic in the face of any criticism of their team.
- Michael sat in one of the chairs against the wall, trying his best to look strong and stoic, but the worry in his eyes was his betrayer.
- The Britons, in contrast, appeared stoic, taking the mentality of que sera sera.
- She was silent and stoic through her trial, but she is talking now.
- Mostly they were stoic as the tiniest details of the family's nightmare were revealed.
- I suspect that if you have been trained to be stoic, this probably diminishes your ability to sense pain.
- But Statham's delivery is strictly grim and stoic, utterly without humour.
2Of or belonging to the Stoics or their school of philosophy. （与）斯多葛学派（有关）的 Seneca preached Stoic abstinence Example sentencesExamples - This metaphor invites us to see an analogy between one's training in Stoic ethics as preparatory for living the philosophic life and someone's training in athletics as preparatory for entering the contest in the arena.
- Students of philosophy in the ancient world could (unless they were Epicureans) expect to study both Aristotelian and Stoic logic, which were seen as complementary, although there could be disputes as to which was the more important.
- Crates was a teacher of Zeno, who founded the Stoic school of philosophy.
- So well-versed was he in the works of the Stoics that he went on to teach Stoic philosophy as a fellow of The Hoover Institution.
- For example, he gives as a thumbnail of Stoic philosophy that one should not value anything that anyone else has the power to take away from you.
- If such impressions do not exist, it follows immediately in the context of Stoic epistemology that nothing can be known.
- For anyone drawn to Stoic philosophy, for example, bodily suffering could not finally be of great significance.
- However, through the introduction of the ‘Spirit,’ upon which Stoic philosophy has a great impact, this transcendence is counterbalanced by the immanence of Wisdom.
- As we have seen, only virtue is good and choiceworthy, and only its opposite, vice, is bad and to be avoided according to Stoic ethics.
- The Stoic school of philosophy existed for about five centuries, from its founding around 300 BCE to the second century CE.
- In it he stresses the value of the Bible as a moral guide and the failure of Stoic philosophy.
- Since it was the Stoics who, in antiquity, developed a sentence logic, by contrast with Aristotle's term logic, it would appear that Boethius's treatise on hypothetical syllogisms is the tributary of Stoic logic.
- This line of argument would seem to lead either to benign Stoic conclusions of mutual indifference, or to finding tyrants and reigns of terror no threat to individual freedom.
- Neither Aristotle nor Plato envisioned their cosmic cyclicity as requiring any detailed endless repetition such as the multiple births of Socrates, though some Stoic philosophers did adopt this drastic position.
- In general, the prominent characteristic of Stoic philosophy is moral heroism, often verging on asceticism.
- In moral philosophy he followed the Stoic teachings and gave opinions on virtue, evil, the soul, and emotions.
- But there is no reason to think that Arcesilaus subscribed to these Stoic views, since we have slight, but sufficient evidence that he argued against every aspect of Stoic epistemology and psychology.
- This unity in the soul is related to another widely held Stoic teaching, i.e., the unity of the virtues.
- I found the juxtaposition naive, given my background in Stoic philosophy of managing the passions in public life.
- Philo made a synthesis of the two systems and attempted to explain Hebrew thought in terms of Greek philosophy by introducing the Stoic concept of the Logos into Judaism.
OriginLate Middle English: via Latin from Greek stōïkos, from stoa (with reference to Zeno's teaching in the Stoa Poikilē or Painted Porch, at Athens). Today a child who falls over but does not cry might be described as stoic—a long way from the original Stoics (3rd century bc) of ancient Athens. They were the followers of a school of philosophy which taught that wise men should live in harmony with Fate or Providence, and be indifferent to the ups and downs of life and to pleasure and pain. From there stoic or stoical came to mean ‘enduring pain and hardship without complaint’. The word is from the Stoa Poikilē, or ‘Painted Porch’, where the school's founder, Zeno, taught. See also cynic, epicure
Definition of stoic in US English: stoicnounˈstoʊɪkˈstōik 1A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining. 坚忍克己者，具有很强忍耐力的人 Example sentencesExamples - My friends and colleagues could not understand how I could be such a stoic in the face of losing out on a four-figure sum.
- He is a noble stoic who is by far the most pure character in the play.
- We see livestock dotting the hillsides as we climb and I wonder what sort of doughty stoics would choose to farm such challenging country.
- If you are on one end of the bell curve and need minimal drugs to treat your pain, you're a stoic, a good chap.
- The modest, by contrast, realise that, in the sum of history and geography, they're but a tiny, passing crater, and the stoics know that human pain has to be suffered and can't just be railed against.
- And it varies hugely and nearly everybody asks that question largely because they're embarrassed, they know about heroes and stoics who can put up with the most awful injuries and not make any complaints.
- The ideal stoic would go about life as an actor in a play, playing the roll they are assigned.
- Beth's husband Kevin, a charismatic history teacher, emerges as a stoic, entirely but mutely aware of his wife's distracted love.
2A member of the ancient philosophical school of Stoicism. 斯多葛派学者 Example sentencesExamples - For the Stoics, the work of the polis and its citizens and the work of the cosmopolis and its citizens are the same: both aim to improve the lives of the citizens.
- There is much in all this that strikes a familiar chord, appearing in some ways as an extension of classical doctrines of self-determination that reach back to the Stoics and beyond.
- A cognitive impression was defined by the Stoics as an impression from what is, stamped and impressed in exact accordance with what is, and such as could not be from what is not.
- His heroes are the Stoics - especially Epicurus - and Marx.
- Later ethical theories distinguished them, and the second, more austere position, that of the Stoics, was generally thought to have won in claiming Plato as its ancestor.
- On his view, the development which takes a human being to virtue does not involve a transformation of the kind posited by the Stoics.
- Approximately half the entry is on the Greek moralists Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
- The ancient Stoics seem to have taken a similar line.
- Here the Stoics might sound like Plato and Aristotle.
- The Stoics attacked the Categories on the assumption that this treatise is on language and about linguistic expressions.
- For doctrines in these areas, he turns to the Stoics and Peripatetics.
- He was a member of a group known in ancient times as the Stoics, and he is chiefly remembered as the author of Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, generally known in English as Letters from a Stoic.
- There are some important parallels in the Hellenistic Stoics and Epicureans to certain themes in Zhuangzi.
- For the Stoics were thorough-going empiricists and believed that sense-impressions lie at the foundation of all of our knowledge.
- The view that emotions are irrational was eloquently defended by the Epicureans and Stoics.
- As a concept, it has affinities with Plato's anima mundi (world soul), and the Stoics ' pneuma.
- The ancient Greek Stoics seem to me to have done better with these distinctions than the Epicureans, on whom I focus in this paper.
- The Stoics developed a sophisticated psychological theory to explain how the advent of reason fundamentally transforms the world view of human beings as they mature.
- Since 1993, I've gone through a great deal of philosophy, in particular works by the Roman stoics such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Cicero.
- One school of ancient philosophers, the Stoics, developed a distinctive view of Medea as part of their ethics and psychology.
adjectiveˈstoʊɪkˈstōik 1 a look of stoic resignation another term for stoical Example sentencesExamples - Marilyn was a stoic and determined woman, with a clear vision.
- And in that kind of instance you would need a judiciary that is stout and stoic in the face of differences of opinion with the regime.
- The movie detective is an archetypal Western hero: stoic, logical, and doggedly determined.
- I cannot say these things matter-of-factly: they are too painful, and I have never been stoic.
- Some looking stoic, others with tears quietly trickling down their caved in faces.
- Students who were not placed in their schools of choice were not as stoic.
- I sat and watched with some mates and we all thought the second half performance, whilst brave and stoic, was also cheating the fans.
- All the handmaidens cheered, but the Lady stood to the back of them, her face stoic.
- The Britons, in contrast, appeared stoic, taking the mentality of que sera sera.
- It would take more than controversy over his age to keep this stoic ex-mayor of Lancaster down.
- She was silent and stoic through her trial, but she is talking now.
- Michael sat in one of the chairs against the wall, trying his best to look strong and stoic, but the worry in his eyes was his betrayer.
- He and his pals are stoic in the face of any criticism of their team.
- Mostly they were stoic as the tiniest details of the family's nightmare were revealed.
- The speaker and the guide walked out of the shelter, in their stoic marching stance.
- So other emotions, such as being scared or stoic, could come as a surprise.
- But Statham's delivery is strictly grim and stoic, utterly without humour.
- Showing no signs of senility, only stoic, hard-won wisdom, The Cave is a work of a master.
- I suspect that if you have been trained to be stoic, this probably diminishes your ability to sense pain.
- His mood seems to have been one of stoic resignation, rather than despair, as reported by James Sharp, a leading Scots Presbyterian.
2Of or belonging to the Stoics or their school of philosophy. （与）斯多葛学派（有关）的 Seneca preached Stoic abstinence Example sentencesExamples - The Stoic school of philosophy existed for about five centuries, from its founding around 300 BCE to the second century CE.
- This line of argument would seem to lead either to benign Stoic conclusions of mutual indifference, or to finding tyrants and reigns of terror no threat to individual freedom.
- For example, he gives as a thumbnail of Stoic philosophy that one should not value anything that anyone else has the power to take away from you.
- Crates was a teacher of Zeno, who founded the Stoic school of philosophy.
- However, through the introduction of the ‘Spirit,’ upon which Stoic philosophy has a great impact, this transcendence is counterbalanced by the immanence of Wisdom.
- As we have seen, only virtue is good and choiceworthy, and only its opposite, vice, is bad and to be avoided according to Stoic ethics.
- If such impressions do not exist, it follows immediately in the context of Stoic epistemology that nothing can be known.
- I found the juxtaposition naive, given my background in Stoic philosophy of managing the passions in public life.
- Neither Aristotle nor Plato envisioned their cosmic cyclicity as requiring any detailed endless repetition such as the multiple births of Socrates, though some Stoic philosophers did adopt this drastic position.
- For anyone drawn to Stoic philosophy, for example, bodily suffering could not finally be of great significance.
- Philo made a synthesis of the two systems and attempted to explain Hebrew thought in terms of Greek philosophy by introducing the Stoic concept of the Logos into Judaism.
- Students of philosophy in the ancient world could (unless they were Epicureans) expect to study both Aristotelian and Stoic logic, which were seen as complementary, although there could be disputes as to which was the more important.
- This metaphor invites us to see an analogy between one's training in Stoic ethics as preparatory for living the philosophic life and someone's training in athletics as preparatory for entering the contest in the arena.
- In moral philosophy he followed the Stoic teachings and gave opinions on virtue, evil, the soul, and emotions.
- So well-versed was he in the works of the Stoics that he went on to teach Stoic philosophy as a fellow of The Hoover Institution.
- In general, the prominent characteristic of Stoic philosophy is moral heroism, often verging on asceticism.
- This unity in the soul is related to another widely held Stoic teaching, i.e., the unity of the virtues.
- Since it was the Stoics who, in antiquity, developed a sentence logic, by contrast with Aristotle's term logic, it would appear that Boethius's treatise on hypothetical syllogisms is the tributary of Stoic logic.
- But there is no reason to think that Arcesilaus subscribed to these Stoic views, since we have slight, but sufficient evidence that he argued against every aspect of Stoic epistemology and psychology.
- In it he stresses the value of the Bible as a moral guide and the failure of Stoic philosophy.
OriginLate Middle English: via Latin from Greek stōïkos, from stoa (with reference to Zeno's teaching in the Stoa Poikilē or Painted Porch, at Athens). |