Is conservatism, traditionalism, certain types of stoicism and

What do you mean by economically flourishing? Areas that have a lot of industry, i.e capitals and population centers or areas that have a high average income i.e rich suburbs?

>>859344
The former mostly. But I admit I was thinking about a time before mass suburbs, a time when only the really rich might have had a countryside residence while earning their money in a city.

Stoicism was probably most popular in the era of the 5 Good Emperors.

Epictetus was the greatest and most famous philosopher in the era of Trajan and Antoninus. That was the height of the Roman Empire.
Hadrian was even a student of him, but not a very good one, considering how much he suffered due to his hedonism and his gay lover. But still a very good ruler.

>>859368
Good point, but how much of this was elite discourse and what actually hapenend in the city streets?

Conservatism is the most sanest way of thinking there is.

>>859549
have a (you) for your valuable input.

>>859529
Stoicism was a practical philosophy. The adherents were more concerned with living it than writing about it. That's why it died.

>>859617
Don't you think some parts of it survived for longer?

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>>860000
No, Stoicism died.

It got a kind of revival in Victorian England (another era of greatness), but then lost popularity after that.

>>859307
Being poor could mean a higher reliance on the community/neighborhood/family, maybe thus encouraging self-denial/conservatism/traditionalism?