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HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Death Doctrine Challenges Neo-Stoicism

The debate over predestination is more something that's affecting the way people handle stoicism, rather than leading them to be interested in stoicism in the first place. The violent fate reading of the stoics would always have been an incorrect interpretation of them. Even if you think the fate doctrine isn't he problem, surely there are other problems for a christian who wants to be a stoic, neo or otherwise? For example, the stoics are materialists. They don't believe in an immaterial soul. And they also seem to think that it's possible for humans to be happy and good and virtuous under their own resources.

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