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Later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, Stockdale attributed his fortitude as a POW to the intellectual and spiritual strength he had gained from studying Stoic philosophy. However, through the introduction of the "Spirit," upon which Stoic philosophy has a great impact, this transcendence is counterbalanced by the immanence of Wisdom. Yet the limits of Lipsius' Stoic philosophy are poignantly apparent in Mark Morford's discussion of his influence on the painter Pieter Paul Rubens, who found himself unable to achieve Stoic apatheia upon the loss of his first wife and daughter. |
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