I loved Nussbaum's call for a "blushing patriarchy" and for feminists to return to the abject body; her embrace of the Stoic notion that thought and feeling are divisionless; and her belief that being a good human or living a virtuous life requires "a kind of openness to the world . . . that can lead you to be shattered".
In the case of the former, Kant writes that according to the Stoics, "the feeling of happiness was already contained in consciousness of one's virtue" (5:112).
Though they may seem at odds with a supposed stoic samurai spirit, his tears displayed a depth of feeling and commitment to his job that his fellow Japanese applauded.
Of course, there's still a deeply rooted cultural notion that women cry and men are stoic, pushing down their feelings and putting up brave faces until they collapse under the weight of all that repressed emotion with a sad, middle-aged heart attack. .
Too bad for him that his suppression of feelings is stoic and unnecessary; the reader finds tragedy in the stoicism and comedy in the lack of any objective need for it.
In his discussion of how the virtuous person responds to weaknesses in others, Seneca extends the Stoic spectrum of rational feelings to include mercy (clementia).
As the gallant, promiscuous and deeply unhappy Lady Ashley, whose great love for Jake can never be consummated, Ms. Taylor is a stunner, a sexy stoic who reveals her true feelings by the way she hides them.
Her concerns were echoed by William Pollack, a best-selling professor of psychiatry at Harvard who warned of trauma to boys forced to hide their tender feelings by the stoic "Boy Code" and its "cult of competition".
Each time the protagonist returns from battle, his wife nags him to talk about his feelings; he remains distant, stoic and closed off, and then, life moves on.
He speaks with garlicky wit and understated humor; his easygoing delivery, harking back to the stoic manhood of studio-era stars, suggest hearty feeling and hints at inner struggle.
