It was Hegel who identified Stoicism as the slave philosophy in his Phänomenologie des Geistes. Hegel understood Stoicism as a stage in the development of the mind wherein we may assert to being free despite extreme privation. What Nietzsche saw was that Stoicism can keep us in a mentality of servitude rather than creating what does not yet exist. Marx further saw Stoicism as a tool of the ruling class to placate the proletariat so that they accept extreme privation like slaves. It's little wonder that Stoicism increases in popularity as the extremes of wealth grow ever wider.
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It was Hegel who identified Stoicism as the slave philosophy in his Phänomenologie des Geistes. Hegel understood Stoicism as a stage in the development of the mind wherein we may assert to being free despite extreme privation. What Nietzsche saw was that Stoicism can keep us in a mentality of servitude rather than creating what does not yet exist. Marx further saw Stoicism as a tool of the ruling class to placate the proletariat so that they accept extreme privation like slaves. It's little wonder that Stoicism increases in popularity as the extremes of wealth grow ever wider.