3. However, as I found, the Stoical insistence of “doing your duty” even if it is not reciprocated is actually a recipe for people to take advantage and use you—particularly in the contemporary world where the idea of strict social obligations has broken down.
Part of the problem with implementing Stoicism in modernity is that science has popped even in the nature God of Stoicism. We understand nature, but we understand its unfathomable and chaotic nature. There’s little comfort there, unlike the comfort of the pagan seasons.
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The stoics gazed at cosmic nature itself, and they realized that there IS order, and that's comforting enough for a bunch of nihilists.
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