Stoic therapy: mode of successful application

Abstract

This study makes actual a meaning of philosophy overlooked by academic philosophical disciplines: philosophy is the art to live a better life. In other words, philosophy has important "practical" valences. In this light, philosophy is, on the one hand, a tool for analyzing the individual's lifestyle and, on the other hand, a therapy, in the true sense of the term, targeted on the reorientation of this lifestyle. Our demonstration resorts, as an example, to the Stoicism practiced by the ancient Greeks (Zeno, Chrysippus etc.).