IDEOLOGICAL AND METAPHYSICAL BACKGROUND OF TOTALITARIAN THEORIES IN PHILOSOPHIC PROGRAM OF ANCIENT STOA

Abstract

The article deals with the aspect of background of totalitarian theories of Ancient Stoa as one of the influential philosophic programs of antiquity having a determining impact on the following development of philosophic thought. The article points out philosophic foundations of totalitarianism in stoic pantheism which became a worldview basis of the idea of absorbing and suppression of the personality by the system (“the whole”) even at the expense of life.