Stoic Pantheism and the Rise of the Alienated Sage

Fortifying Stoicism with Existentialism

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Stoicism is a form of virtue ethics that’s grounded in pantheism, but Stoicism conflicts with existentialism in certain crucial respects. To show this, I’ll draw on the Stanford and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP and IEP) articles’ explications. Then I’ll critique Stoic ethics from a late-modern vantage…