Stoicism - Logic Without Emotion

The austere characteristic of stoicism was to make Rome a better empire. Many believed it then in Rome, many have believed it in recent decades, and many believe in those same principles, now. The goal was for all of man to live with conquered passions and to use reason to guide one's decisions; Stoicism's principles could have saved a human Rome had they been adopted accurately. However, to speak austerely and objectively in unpassionate reflection of such principles, one sees the ironic truth that a human world in which Stoicism was rule, in which Plato's philosopher king ruled, and in which the ideals of Marcus Aurelius were made manifest, would be strikingly inhuman.

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