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De Constantia

Overview

De Constantia in publicis malis (On constancy in times of public evil) was a philosophical dialogue published by Justus Lipsius in two books in 1583. The book, modelled after the dialogues of Seneca, was pivotal in establishing an accommodation of Stoicism and Christianity which became known as Neostoicism. De Constantia went through over eighty editions between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Philosophers who discussed De Constantia

• Justus Lipsius

Related ideas

• Stoicism
• Justus Lipsius
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Christianity
• Seneca the Younger
• Neostoicism

Place in the tradition

Part of Neostoicism.

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