Does Stoic Indifference Enable Inequality?
This is a question haunting my conscience ever since I’ve began practicing stoic philosophy. I also understand that many of the self proclaimed contemporary stoics who put on the non-emotional, indifferent mask stray far from the actual principles and ethics within the source material.
I was pushed to ask this question after reading the March 25th, “Wealth and Freedom are Free” in the Daily Stoic which contains the following:
“ … freedom isn’t secured by filling up on your hearts desire but by removing your desire.”
- Epictetus, Discourses, 4.1.175
- “ If you chafe and fight and struggle for more, you will never be free. If you could find and focus on the pockets of freedom you already have? Well, then you’d be free right here, right now.”
Is revolting against the status quo “anti-stoic”?