author
St. George William Joseph Stock
b. 1850
A clear, early 20th-century guide to Stoicism came from this British scholar of philosophy and classics, who wrote for general readers as well as reference works. His writing is known for making difficult ideas feel orderly and approachable.
2 Audiobooks
Deductive Logic
by St. George William Joseph Stock
A Guide to Stoicism
by St. George William Joseph Stock
About the author
Born in 1850, St. George William Joseph Stock was a British scholar associated with Pembroke College, Oxford, where he is listed as M.A., and with the University of Birmingham, where he served as a lecturer in Greek. He also contributed articles to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Stock is best remembered by many modern readers for A Guide to Stoicism, a short introduction that presents the main ideas of Stoic philosophy in a direct, readable way. He also wrote Deductive Logic, showing the same interest in clear thinking and careful explanation.
Some library-style sources give his death year as 1921, while other records suggest he died in Dundalk in early 1922 at age 72. Because the details are not fully consistent across the sources reviewed here, it is safest to say that he lived from 1850 into the early 1920s.