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.
Founded the Neo-Stoic movement that transmitted Stoic philosophy through the Renaissance and into modernity — arguing that Stoic constancy (constancy of mind against fortune's vicissitudes) was the philosophical virtue required for the period of religious warfare — bridging ancient Stoicism and modern Stoicism.
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