Did stoicism teach anything about the afterlife?
Would you relate it to the teachings of afterlife to any of the following:
Christian: heaven/hell
Agnostic: not sure
United Universalist: Heaven only
Buddhism: reincarnation & nirvana
Hinduism: reincarnation & absorption into God
Epicurean: life ends at death
2006-11-22 17:01:28 · 4 answers · asked by LearningGuy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They had a rough belief in the afterlife through the fiery conflagration, which is a type of reincarnation the entire world endures. They had a cyclical view of history.
http://www.radicalacademy.com/philstoicism.htm#physics
2006-11-22 17:07:27 · answer #1 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most like Daoist(Tao)
Stoics believed in a universal fire that heated cold matter into life, but it can also be considered like the Deist universal spirit that everything exists as part of. After death it was thought that your spirit was dissolved and reused as raw material to make other stuff including life. Like nirvana without personal reincarnation. As Stoicism aged it got diluted with the animist and god worship around it.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is still a good read.
2006-11-23 01:08:48 · answer #2 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stoics are just not concerned about anything enough to have an opinion on an afterlife
2006-11-23 01:04:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a philosophy not a religion but it influenced religion and held to similar morals. it is possible ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism
the stoics did believe in a temporary after life before returning through the fires of rebirth. http://radicalacademy.com/philstoicism.htm
2006-11-23 01:20:34 · answer #4 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋