Neostoicism
Videos
Neostoicism was a philosophical movement that arose in the late 16th century from the works of Justus Lipsius, and sought to combine the beliefs of Stoicism and Christianity. Lipsius was Flemish and a
Justus Lipsius, the founder of neostoicism
The Four Philosophers by Peter Paul Rubens (1611–12); Pitti Palace, Florence
Stoicism
Videos
Stoicism is a philosophical movement and practical guide to living, emphasizing daily self-discipline and moral improvement, which originated in the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece and proliferat
Neostoicism
…Neostoicism was a philosophical movement that arose in the late 16th century from the works of Justus Lipsius, and sought to combine the beliefs of Stoicism and Christianity. Lipsius was Flemish and a Renaissance humanist. The movement took on the nature of religious syncretism, although modern scholarship…
A bust of Zeno of Citium, considered the founder of Stoicism
Chrysippus, the third leader of the Stoic school, wrote more than 300 books on logic. His works were lost, but an outline of his logical system may be reconstructed from fragments and testimony.
A bust of Seneca, a Stoic philosopher from the Roman Empire who served as an adviser to Nero
Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Roman emperor