Richard Pipes Quote

Stoicism's contribution to the shaping of the Western intellectual tradition is probably second only to that of Jewish monotheism. If monotheism advanced the revolutionary concept of an all-powerful and all-pervasive but non-material God ruling the universe, the theory of Natural Law posited that God's universe was rational and capable of being grasped by human intelligence.


p. 7 - Property and Freedom (1999)


Stoicism's contribution to the shaping of the Western intellectual tradition is probably second only to that of Jewish monotheism. If monotheism...

Stoicism's contribution to the shaping of the Western intellectual tradition is probably second only to that of Jewish monotheism. If monotheism...

Stoicism's contribution to the shaping of the Western intellectual tradition is probably second only to that of Jewish monotheism. If monotheism...

Stoicism's contribution to the shaping of the Western intellectual tradition is probably second only to that of Jewish monotheism. If monotheism...