DE Weekly: Epictetus, Amor Fati, & Memento Mori
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” This quote comes to us from Epictetus, the Greek Stoic philosopher who lived in first century Rome.
Epictetus was a teacher of philosophy who, under the Emperor Domitian, was banished for teaching philosophy. He later founded a school of philosophy in Nicopolis.
DE Weekly: Amor Fati, Nietzsche, & Sisyphus
Although existentialism didn’t roll around to officially cement itself as a bona fide philosophy until the twentieth century, earlier philosophies explored proto-existentialist ideas and laid the foundation upon which it would one day sprout from.
One philosophy that has quite a bit in common with existentialism, at least insofar as it seeks to answer many of the same questions, is the ancient philosophy of Stoicism.