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Judith Stove's avatar

Lovely pair of articles, Brittany! Thank you. I think we are starting to see more and more the influence of Stoicism on culture in the late seventeenth/early eighteenth centuries.

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David Fideler's avatar

This is all true. But most of these ideas go back to the Pythagoreans and Plato. In terms of ideas about beauty, the Stoics were transmitting and adapting earlier ideas. While they gave those ideas a certain emphasis, I'm not seeing where they introduced anything new that wasn't already implicit in the earlier philosophers. Also, the idea of the cosmopolis can be traced back to Platonic and Pythagorean sources.

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