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Being stoic is overrated. Much prefer when we actually talk about ideas and don't just sit there mysteriously.
by anonytrary 5y ago
Being stoic is overrated. Much prefer when we actually talk about ideas and don't just sit there mysteriously.
- albatruss 5y agoThe article concerns philosophers who loved talking about ideas, not the colloquial usage of the word stoic.
- Trasmatta 5y agoThat's not what stoicism is at all.
- vitiral 5y agoBe sure to use capital S when talking about the philosophy. The dictionary definition and the philosophy seem to be not actually related, inversely related in many places in fact
- dataduck 5y agoThat speaks volumes about the people who write the dictionaries.
- ByteJockey 5y agoAll of the major dictionaries are descriptivist. They describe how people are using words, they do not try to control how words are used.