What Similarities Did Stoicism and Epicureanism Share

question 60

Multiple Choice

What similarities did Stoicism and Epicureanism share?

• A) a desire to explain the meaning of human existence
• B) the presumption of an orderly, purposeful universe
• C) a tendency toward escapism and political disengagement
• D) a belief in the transmigration of the psyche
• E) an assumption that knowledge could be gleaned through sense perception

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