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The Religious Nature of Stoicism – Episode 15

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The Stoic Worldview Is Unsustainable

The meditations of Marcus Aurelius have inspired countless people, and there is good reason why it remains an influential and inspirational part of the Western spiritual and ethical canon. I feel certain that Lawrence Becker is right, the divine and providential cosmos of stoicism is simply not credible in modern academia. William Irving is certainly correct to suggest that the Stoic worldview is off putting to atheists and agnostics who desire to self identify as Stoics in our secular age. Finally, I have no doubt that for Massimo Piliucci and other moderns who are beholden to the reductionist materialist belief system of mainstream science, the StoIC worldview will appear unsustainable. In spite of these

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