Epic Battles in Practical Ethics: Stoicism vs Epicureanism

Comparing Two Ancient Philosophies

[Zeno of Citium (left), the founder of Stoicism, and Epicurus (right)]

It is no secret, I guess, that a few years ago I adopted Stoicism as my chosen philosophy of life. It is also not a secret that the Stoics engaged in a number of robust debates with several other Hellenistic schools, from the Peripatetics (followers of Aristotle) to the Academic Skeptics (like Cicero), to —…