Sentence examples for stoic individual from inspiring English sources

The group Serve Afghanistan described Ms. Williams as an enthusiastic, stoic individual.

Vickers is known as a stoic and measured individual.

The Platonic contemplation of the Good and the Stoic exploration of the relationship of individual to universal nature are both tantamount to the study of God and his logos, Christ.

The integrative model assumes that - at the individual level - a stoic attitude as well as fear of stigmatization is relevant for a wish for treatment to emerge.

Alston and Kent (33) suggest that depression and suicide among Australian farmers during drought is exacerbated by the historical image of Australian men as rugged and resilient individuals, who do not seek support, with a stoic resistance to adversity.

But as the piece progresses, Marin layers in more expressively individual detail – a larky smile, a jaunty caper, a gesture of stoic tenderness – that bring each dancer's personality to comic and delicate life.

If human attitudes and beliefs are within an individual's power or sphere of influence, is this truly congruent with Stoic determinism?

In one way, they agreed with the Stoics: The passions were indeed violent forces that could conflict with reason and lead an individual into sin.

This line of argument would seem to lead either to benign Stoic conclusions of mutual indifference, or to the finding that tyrants and terrorists pose no threat to individual freedom.

In order to defend the Christian dogma of personal immortality, Philoponus broke with the common Aristotelian and Stoic interpretation of a single universal mind operative in all people and taught that each person possesses an individual intellect.

Because of this, the Stoics presented their philosophy as a way of life, and they thought that the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how that person behaved.