The Modern Assault Against Ancient Wisdom

Douglas C. Bates
5 min readJun 18, 2022

The emptiness of a fashionable modern critique

Many recent articles have criticized Stoicism. I’m even the author of some of them (this, that, and the other). However, the June 15, 2022 publication of Henry Gruber’s Don’t be stoic: Roman Stoicism’s origins show its perniciousness published by the popular online magazine Aeon represents a now fashionable form of criticism that, while in this…

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Douglas C. Bates

Ancient Greek philosophies of life. http://www.pyrrhonism.org Author of “Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism.”