Stoicism Faithscore: 59/100

Overview

Stoicism scores 59 out of 100 in Faithscore's evidence-based evaluation, indicating weak evidentiary support with significant gaps in historical, textual, or predictive verification.

Faithscore applies court-like evidentiary standards across six weighted criteria. Every system is scored against the same rubric — religious or philosophical — to surface objective comparisons. Read the full methodology.

The six weighted criteria

• Textual fidelity — preservation, manuscript count, and accuracy of source documents.
• Historical verification — independent corroboration, hostile-witness testimony, archaeological confirmation.
• Scientific testability — falsifiable claims, observable evidence, repeatable predictions.
• Internal consistency — logical coherence of doctrine and absence of contradiction.
• Prophetic accuracy — ratio of fulfilled to unfulfilled predictions, dated against earliest manuscripts.
• Explanatory power — how well the system accounts for the breadth of human experience.

Denominations of Stoicism

• Late Stoicism (Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius) — Faithscore 59/100
• Early Stoicism (Zeno) — Faithscore 58/100
• Roman Stoicism — Faithscore 58/100
• Middle Stoicism (Panaetius) — Faithscore 57/100
• Modern Stoicism — Faithscore 55/100
• Neo-Stoicism — Faithscore 54/100
• Therapeutic Stoicism — Faithscore 53/100
• Secular Stoicism — Faithscore 52/100

Compare Stoicism

• Stoicism vs Christianity
• Stoicism vs Islam
• Stoicism vs Hinduism
• Stoicism vs Secularism
• Stoicism vs Evolution/Naturalism
• Stoicism vs Agnosticism

See also

• Faithscore methodology
• Evidence library
• All 313 religions

Scholarly sources for Stoicism

The Faithscore analysis of Stoicism draws on the following peer-reviewed scholarship, primary research institutions, and academic publishers.