Moral Practice in Late Stoicism and Buddhist Meditation
Comparative Philosophy An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy January 30, 2017 Michael Goerger 1 citation
I argue in this essay that Stoic philosophers in the late Greco-Roman period utilized philosophical exercises and spiritual technologies similar in form to a meditative exercise currently practiced in Buddhism. I begin with an in-depth discussion of moral development in the late Stoa, focusing particularly on their theories of cosmopolitanism and oikeiōsis. These theoretical commitments, I...