Re: looking for stoicism

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caroline laskow wrote:
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> was the religion/philosophy of stoicism thought to endanger the newly
> emerging christianity? if not, what caused the disappearance of this
> belief system which, IMHO, holds as much water today as it did for
> marcus aurelius?

I don't think Stoicism just disappeared. The writtings of Lucius Seneca
were popular throughout medieval literature, and I think there was a
revival of the Stoic school during the Renaissance.

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