Stoic Minimalism is not Enough

Why Physics and Logic are Crucial to Ethics

Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism

My friend and former student (at the Stoic School in Rome) Chuck Chakrapani has written a worthwhile article over at the Modern Stoicism site, entitled “Stoic minimalism: stripping the dead bark off orthodox Stoicism.” In it, Chuck pursues a project of updating Stoicism to the 21st century by identifying a set of core notions from ancient…