A pack of lies Book

I only got to read about a half of this book, dry and badly written as it is. Becker tries to „update” the ancient stoic doctrine in the abstruse and very dry fashion so typical of the contemporary analytical philosophy style. It is more an exercise in intellectual „masturbation” rather than a meaningful statement, as a book on such a subject should be. He is also incoherent, or so it seemed to me, in his position regarding the famed „is-ought” distinction, which he sometimes acknowledge but seems to disregard in his project of reconstructing ”ethics” from facts. The only somehow interesting parts of this book are the commentaries which he provided at the end of each chapter, which tend to focus more on the historical roots of stoicism. Reading through this book I got the impression that Becker wants to somehow program a „stoic” robot, providing all kinds of procedures and axioms, filled with references to normative logic and all the ”-isms” he could find. I know many will disregard this comment as malicious, but this is what I think. I do not care that so many people find something valuable in this kind of „philosophy”. For my part, it is nothing but prolix and pretentious trivialities masquerading as „rigorous” analysis. Analytical philosophy is the the revival of medieval scholasticism. There is absolutely nothing „stoical” in this approach.