Stoicism is characterized by fatalism, and this is the similarity between them. The difference is that fatalism is a worldview that is peculiar to many other things, and stoicism is a specific philosophical school.�
Fatalism says that everything is predetermined and there is no chance or free choice, i.e. it gives such a picture of the world.�
Stoicism tells us what a person should do in such a world, how to live with such an awareness that you have no freedom of choice, no random step to the right or left. And in this rigidly predetermined world, stoicism offers a person the only possible freedom – his own Mind, attitude to what is happening. “If you can't change the situation, change your attitude to it” (Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher).
Stoicism is characterized by fatalism, and this is the similarity between them. The difference is that fatalism is a worldview that is peculiar to many other things, and stoicism is a specific philosophical school.�
Fatalism says that everything is predetermined and there is no chance or free choice, i.e. it gives such a picture of the world.�
Stoicism tells us what a person should do in such a world, how to live with such an awareness that you have no freedom of choice, no random step to the right or left. And in this rigidly predetermined world, stoicism offers a person the only possible freedom – his own Mind, attitude to what is happening. “If you can't change the situation, change your attitude to it” (Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher).