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Ideas of Justus Lipsius, by Text
[Belgian, 1547 - 1606, Born near Brussels. Trained by the Jesuits. At the Universities of Leiden and Louvain.]
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A neo-Stoic movement began in the late sixteenth century
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Full Idea:
A neo-Stoic movement began at the end of the sixteenth century, under the inspiration of the Dutch scholar Justus Lipsius.
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From:
report of Justus Lipsius (works [1584]) by A.C. Grayling - What is Good? Ch.5
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A reaction:
I would take this to be just as much a movement against Christianity as the interest in the less theistic Epicurus. They wanted the virtues of Christianity without the theological trappings.
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