
HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is There a Lot of Stoic Doctrine in Marcus Aurelius?
There's not a lot of explicit stoic doctrine in marcus aurelius, although if you already know all the stoic doctrine, you can see how marcus is using stoic ideas. So i don't think marcus a Aurelius made a huge impression on him. And another thing to bear in mind as well is that these two really important handbooks that lipsius produces explicitly. These are books to help explain seneca. Nowifyou tunderstand seneca, you might want to go back and understand what all the early greek stoics were doing beforehand. But you are not going to look at hippitetus and marcusAurelius in
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