Life and the philosophy of life

Author's name: Moayad Ajaibidar Publisher: Ru'ya for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2024 Literary classification: Philosophy and Thought Brief about the book: Unlike all complex theoretical philosophies. Stoic philosophy aimed to study humans and help them discover ways to live a calm, comfortable, and happy life within the limits of the capabilities carried by their physical and spiritual being, as an contemplative field that necessarily leads to deriving the wisdom of eternal life. Because what primarily occupies Stoic philosophical thinking is that type of issues related to human existence, similar to existential life philosophies that address humans in their daily struggle, and in consideration of the temporal historical reality in which they inevitably live. Therefore, the desired mission of this book was to clarify the ontological turning point made by Stoic philosophy when it started from real life and ended with it, contrary to the case with Plato, Aristotle, and the entire Socratic school. It was a safe place and a speaking voice for humans, working towards their salvation from all fears after they tended to withdraw from public life, and after political and moral chaos obscured them, which was reflected on the philosophers of this era, pushing them to turn away from thinking about existence to thinking about the existent, by exploring human behavior and their pursuit of individual happiness. Based on this, Stoicism tried to employ other philosophical disciplines to serve this purpose in order to reach happiness and communal living.