r/StoicMemes • u/yevelnad • 15d ago

Nihilist vs Stoic

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u/Mbando 15d ago

This seems a much more Existentialist reply than Stoic.

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u/MstClvrUsrnm 14d ago

Glad somebody caught that. I love existentialism, but it tends to get a bad rap as essentially being nihilism.

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u/Mbando 14d ago

I don’t think the film is in any way Christian, but the Christian existentialist position, that you do good not because you fear God, but because it’s simply what you ought to do, absolutely fits Neo’s philosophy. It’s the opposite of the kind of French pessimistic, existentialism, but I don’t know of a non-Christian flavored variety of that.

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u/Hot-Environment-3055 13d ago

There are Christian themes all over the matrix.