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Interestingly, Stoic ideas about divine unity and universal interconnectedness have influenced mystical and esoteric traditions, especially during the Middle Stoa period with thinkers like Posidonius. Their concepts of sympathia—the interconnected sympathy of all things—laid the groundwork for later neoplatonic and mystical thought.
Modern Relevance
Modern thinkers like Spinoza adopted pantheistic views similar to Stoic logos, emphasizing that God and nature are one. Additionally, contemporary cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) explicitly draws from Stoic principles—particularly Epictetus’s insight that it's not things that disturb us but our judgments about them.