ST
Stoicism school of thought
This is a reconstruction from published statements, not a real account. Only questions with a documented position are answered, and each one cites its source below. Spotted an error? Bring a better citation to the forum and it gets fixed.
School of thought (Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca). Live according to nature; virtue is the only true good. Canonical summary, not a person.
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Kindred % · overall match
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Twin % · thinks like you
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World % · lives in your world
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Life % · lives like you
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Opposition % · opposite poles, held with certainty
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Positions & sources
| Question | Position | Source |
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| Which comes closest to your actual position on God? | Probably a god or higher power exists | Stoic pantheism (Diogenes Laertius 7.147) — scored 3 rather than 4: the Stoic God is an immanent rational order, not a personal intervener. |
| Two people each drove home equally over the legal limit, on the same route, in the same conditions. One arrived safely. The other seriously injured a pedestrian who stepped out, through no extra fault of the driver. Compared with the unlucky driver, the lucky one is: | Equally blameworthy | Epictetus, Discourses and Enchiridion — good and evil lie only in choice (prohairesis); outcomes are indifferents, so identical choices carry identical blame. (scenario answer — inferred from their documented positions, not a recorded statement) |
| Suppose you once drove home over the legal limit and arrived safely. Someone else did exactly the same, on the same route in the same conditions, and seriously injured a pedestrian who stepped out, through no extra fault of theirs. Compared with them, you are: | Equally blameworthy | Epictetus — the same doctrine, symmetric by construction. (scenario answer — inferred from their documented positions, not a recorded statement) |
| God exists | Probably true | Stoic theology — God as the rational Logos pervading nature: Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus; Diogenes Laertius 7.147 (God as an intelligent, fiery breath pervading the world). |
| Prayer can change what happens in the world, beyond its effects on the people involved | Probably false | Epictetus, Enchiridion 53 (quoting Cleanthes) — prayer as acceptance of what Zeus ordains, not a means of changing outcomes. |
| With the past exactly the same, our choices could have gone otherwise | Certainly false | Chrysippus's compatibilism, reported in Cicero, De Fato — all things happen by fate; identical antecedents cannot issue in different outcomes. |
| Some actions are wrong no matter what any person or culture believes | Certainly true | Stoic natural law — right and wrong fixed by Nature and Reason (Diogenes Laertius 7; Cicero, De Legibus). |
| We owe a stranger overseas as much as we owe a neighbor | Probably true | Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.4 — "the world is a single city"; Hierocles' concentric circles extend concern to all humanity. |
| Human life has a purpose beyond the one we choose for it | Certainly true | Diogenes Laertius 7.87–89 — the human end (telos) is given by nature: living in agreement with Nature and Reason. |
| Most people are basically good | Probably true | The doctrine of oikeiōsis (Cicero, De Finibus 3) — humans are by nature social and predisposed to affiliation and virtue. |