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It is worth noting that the Stoics in general were opposed to innovations in technology. From Seneca, Letter 90: "Reason did indeed devise all these things, but
by jasonhansel 8y ago
It is worth noting that the Stoics in general were opposed to innovations in technology. From Seneca, Letter 90: "Reason did indeed devise all these things, but it was not right reason. It was man, but not the wise man, that discovered them."
The early Stoics also opposed wealth inequality: they held that we should be "like a flock feeding together with equal right in one common pasture."
Sources:
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_90 https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/L...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Zeno) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Zeno)
- jasonhansel 8y agoAlso: Cicero was not a Stoic, and did not claim to be one; in De Finibus book 4 he takes great pains to refute Stoic ethics.