Reclaiming Resilience: Adapting Stoicism for the modern age

Stoicism has had a resurgence in popularity in recent times for its practical applications of philosophy. With this praise comes a wide variety of modern stoic movements from amorphous stoic communities on Reddit, to deep discussions proposing changes to stoicism, to “manosphere” people using stoicism as self help and encouraging sexism. This paper will start with defining stoicism, discuss criticisms of stoicism, talk about how those issues led to its co-option, then figure out how to adapt Stoicism to make it more resilient to co-option and more applicable to the modern day, and finally ending with a reflection of how I want to take stoicism with me into my life moving forward.