From ancient to new Stoicism: IV—Becker’s update

Larry Becker

How do we update ancient Stoicism so that it becomes a viable philosophy for the 21st century and beyond? We start, as we did in this ongoing series, with a solid understanding of ancient Stoicism: if we don’t know the starting point we can hardly chart the way forward. Now that we have a grasp of ancient Stoic physics (i.e., science), logic, and ethics, we can begin to tackle four explicit attempts, made by different authors, to come up with a modern rendition of Stoic philosophy.

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