From ancient to new Stoicism: I—Stoic physics

Chrysippus of Soli (center), surrounded by his famous cylinder and cone (see text). Trajan’s Market Museum, Rome. Photo by the Author.

Time to update Stoicism for the 21st century and beyond, don’t you think? I mean, the philosophy has been around since the 4th century BCE, but a few things have changed since then. Indeed, the initiative I recently announced, the School for a New Stoicism, has as its main objective to help bring this venerable and eminently practical philosophy squarely into mode...