From atheists to empiricists: reinterpreting the stoics in the German enlightenment
From the 1670s Stoic philosophy had been closely associated with atheism and the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. However, in 1771 the historian Christoph Meiners published a short essay on the concept of apatheia that revived interest in Stoic philosophy within the German lands. Over the following yea...
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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