The live argument inside Stoicism now is whether it is a philosophy or a technique. Modern Stoicism, the organisation, is deliberately neutral and publishes both sides; "traditional" Stoics argue that stripping out providence leaves "live according to nature" with no content, and that what remains is resilience training wearing a toga. The counter-argument is that the surviving Roman texts are already mostly exercises, and that Marcus himself declined to rest the practice on the metaphysics. Nobody has authority to settle it, because the school has had no head since antiquity.