Interesting; I am annoyed and relieved that no Stoic seems to have nominated any particular historical person as a sage.

I don't think I could pull off that kind of meditation, due to my having too much structural uncertainty about ethics and meta-ethics. What's that Borges quote? "I have known that thing the Greeks knew not—uncertainty."

BTW random LW people here is the SEP on Stoicism.

I notice that like LessWrong the Stoics are big on Logos and instrumental rationality and related ethics but their (meta-)physics and theology strike me as fuzzy and underdeveloped.