This article completes a three-part series on Daoism, Stoicism, and the ethics of power. It should be read together with the previous essays on Daoism as restraint and Stoicism as endurance. The previous two   articles  examined Daoism and Stoicism separately as civilizational responses to systemic crisis. Daoism was analyzed as an ethics of restraint emerging against the bureaucratic and militarized state of Warring States China. Stoicism was examined as an ethics of enduran

This article is the second part of a three-part series on Daoism, Stoicism, and their comparative relevance for modern societies. While the first article  examined Daoism as a civilizational ethics of restraint against domination and ecological excess, this study focuses on Stoicism as a Western ethical response to systemic crisis under empire. Stoicism did not emerge as a philosophy of political reform or institutional redesign. It arose as an ethics of endurance in a world