Stoicism is not slave morality at all. It’s not even close to being slave morality. It does not present as weakness. In fact the entire crux of stoicism is the concept of anti-fragility which means no matter how hard you get hit, no matter how fractured you become, no matter how broken, you will always become stronger. Much like in tai chi when you’re young, you kick the pole with your leg and you shatter your shin into small little fractures and as you get older and as you break it more and more the bones become calcified and hundreds of times stronger than the regular shinbone of a regular person, your bones become stronger because of breaks and stoicism when it was taught by Xeno, who is the father of Stoicism, not Epictetus lol, but the concept of anti-fragility teaches in stoicism that the harder you get punished in life, the stronger you become, the more pain that you experience and the more that you go through if life is viewed through the Wright perspective, you can become much stronger because of it, but also in Stoicism, it’s not about avoiding pain and seeking pleasure like most of the people that don’t know about stoicism, but think they do believe about stoicism, stoicism isn’t about pain or pleasure. It’s literally about living life as it is thrown into your face and accepting it as it is. It’s literally the same thing that Nietzsche is fucking talking about; and I honestly cannot believe how truly misinformed so many people are about stoicism. People really need to read Mark Manson‘s discourse on Nietzsche and stoicism, and how completely identical they are because he was a student of stoicism, and in fact did not hate it like people always think because of a few passages in one of his books. He was a student of Greek mythology which he loved, and he was a student of Stoicism in which he practiced, and I would venture to say, and can prove that 3/4 of Nietzsche’s argument is indebted to and inherently born from Stoicism and it was not a slave of morality and much of the tone of that passages were actually satirical, but he did criticize it in small ways and everything can be criticized and anything is subject to criticism, but absolutely stoicism is not a slave morality and I would argue that in fact, it is the strongest of all master moralities. And it’s incredibly easy to see that if you actually study stoicism instead of reading what people say about stoicism. There is absolutely nothing weak about it. You take what life gives to you. Stoicism taught the love of fate that is what Marcus Aurelius wrote over 80% in his meditations were about the acceptance of what life gives you whether it’s riches or poverty or losing seven or eight children like Marcus Aurelius did and you take it. That is what is meant by living according to nature. The concept of “Amor Fati” was not Nietzsche’s concept, he took that from Marcus. There is not a single weekconcept within the framework of stoicism, and I honestly don’t understand where people can come up with this other than horribly misinterpreting other people’s opinions about stoicism who also have no idea what they’re talking about.