Mabille, Louise2012-06-112012-06-112007Mabille, L 2007, 'Stoic against the City', Phronimon, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 69-79.1561-4018http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19138In 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.enSouth African Society for Greek Philosophy and the HumanitiesStoicismStoicsCosmologyPhilosophy, AncientDegenerationArticle