2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Justus Lipsius's 1584 dialogue arguing for Stoic constancy as the response to the political chaos of the religious wars — the 'constant man' maintains inner stability regardless of external turmoil — which launched the Neo-Stoic movement of the late 16th and 17th centuries.
Flemish humanist and philologist who founded Neo-Stoicism — the 16th century revival of Stoic philosophy — through De Constantia (1584), arguing that Stoic constancy is the appropriate response to the political chaos of the religious wars of his time.