Hello Day,
-> I choose Stoicism after having read the Bible, Koran, Qumran, and the
-> various eastern- Upshanishads, Bagavad Gita, Watts & other of the Zen
-> writers, all which are worthy- but: the former meets well with
-> findings of sociology and psychology.  Perhaps because both,
-> Stoicism, and the sciences, owe so much to Aristotle.
->
-> Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" is a famous Stoic work, but I find it
-> glaringly obvious that he don't say diddly about slavery.  How
   Congratulations on your search.  I did re-read Russell in his
_History_ about the stoics, and some, like Epictetus DO sound
very ineresting--opposition to slavery.
    However Russell does raise the issue of *practice* and it
seems both Seneca and Marcus A had some problems there.  So
maybe stoicism is not immune to the perennial probelm, how
to "practice what you preach."
    Stoicism, in many forms, seems to have had a quasi-religious
base, or at least a base in moral principles of nature.
    Where do you stand.
    Hal.
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