从爱比克泰德到罗翔——斯多葛和基督教的合流回声From Epictetus to Luo Xiang: Stoic and Christian Echoes

Professor Luo Xiang has two contested faces. One is the "Zhang San the Outlaw" and "life mentor Luo Xiang" with twenty million followers; the other is the middle-aged male professor derided as patronising, pretentious and preachy. Only together do the two faces make up a complete Luo Xiang, with all his shades of grey. Placed in historical context, what he does is thoroughly classical: fusing Stoicism and Christianity and presenting them to his contemporaries. - Stoicism and Christianity originally had nothing to do with each other. Why have people repeatedly tried to bind them together over two thousand years? - On the surface Calvin attacked the Stoics more fiercely than anyone, yet the hidden thread running beneath The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is in fact Stoic. How can that be? - You have very likely done cognitive restructuring exercises in CBT. What you may not know is that you were using Epictetus. Is this a victory for Stoicism, or a defeat? - Each of the great fusions in history came at a moment after the peak of prosperity, when long years of peace had left people restless. Are we standing at such a moment again?