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Everything You Should Know About Ancient Stoicism (Episode 59)

Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied

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The Six Types of Stoicism

There are three types of stoicism: ancient, traditional and modern. Traditional stoicism is the view that Stoicism to work as an ethical system requires a divine providential universe directed by a divine force energy God who is ultimately good. Modern stoicism says there's a lot of really good points here in stoicism about ethics. But they get this God stuff wrong or this God stuff is very difficult to prove and is ultimately unnecessary. So what we're going to do is either discard the divine aspect of stoicism or rely on it as much as possible for our lives.

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