May 12, 2022
Yes, that’s the source of the misconception. I don’t know where Shakespeare got it from, except for an understandable mistake thinking that just because one acts virtuously and mercifully one is therefore a Stoic.
Written by Figs in Winter
by Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. Exploring and practicing Stoicism & other philosophies of life.