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Your Beginning Steps in Stoicism and this blog
Below you will find a link to several articles/pages that will introduce you to Stoicism. These are very short introductions (less than 2,000 words) and are meant to give an overview of the philosophy, the Stoic philosophers, and the main texts that survive to this day.
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A Short Introduction to Stoicism
This is a short introduction into the philosophy, who the main philosophers are, and what writings they left behind.
This piece features mini-bios of the big three Stoics as well as some of the other most known philosophers of the philosophy.
A very short introduction into what the main Stoic texts that survive are.
A list of the ancient texts, biographies, and other works to help better understand the philosophy. While the list may not be complete (it is after all ever expanding), it features a lot of books, both known and unknown, to help get anyone started with learning the history and philosophy of Stoicism.
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