Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Latin name of Joost Lips, Flemish humanist and scholar, renowned for his editions of Tacitus (1574) and Seneca (1589-1605). Lipsius sought to revive Stoicism, finding parallels between the classical submission to fate and Christian submision to providence. His own philosophical writings included De Constantia (1584), Manuductio ad Stoicam philosophiam (1604) and Physiologia Stoicorum (1604).

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