Senior Project Advisor
Tristan Goldman
Document Type
Project - Campus-only Access
Publication Date
Fall 2025
Keywords
Stoicism, Manosphere, Interdependence, Circle of Concern
Abstract
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.
Department
Honors
Recommended Citation
Kalloway, Logan, "Reclaiming Resilience: Adapting Stoicism for the modern age" (2025). WWU Honors College Senior Projects. 1038.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwu_honors/1038
Type
Text
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.
Language
English
Format
application/pdf