Abstract:
In these decadent times, it is tempting to turn to Stoicism for
alternative inspiration. It is misleading, however, to think that
Stoicism possess a genuinely political dimension; in fact it is
inimical to politics as understood in the classical sense. Drawing
on Hannah Arendt and Friedrich Nietzsche, it is shown that
Stoicism could be as anti-polis as the rest of the metaphysical
tradition.