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Often appears with: stoic ethics · reason and the intellect · justice as a virtue · duty, conscience, and obligation · will, choice, and freedom · the nature and attributes of God · the fear of death · stoicism origins · stoic virtue · stoic materialism and pantheism · reason as guide · rational action
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The advice is to take the “short way” that is natural—speaking and acting according to sound reason—because it frees a person from trouble, warfare, and deception.
out of which during so many years I have been supplied with food and drink; which bears me when I tread on it and abuse it for so many purposes. 5. Thou sayest, Men cannot admire the sharpness of thy wits.—Be it so: but there are many other things of which thou canst not say, I am not formed for them by nature. Show those qualities then which are altogether in thy power, sincerity, gravity, endurance of labor, avers…
The text explains Stoic ethics as living according to Nature: act by reason, follow the divinity within, cooperate socially, and treat all people as kin by shared intelligence.
dishonor, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good and bad men, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.” The Ethical part of Antoninus’ Philosophy follows from his general principles. The end of all his philosophy is to live conformably to Nature, both a man’s own nature and the nature of the universe. Bishop Butler has explained what the Greek…
It describes Stoic ideas: some things are beautiful and good, others ugly and evil; life and death are morally indifferent; death should not be feared but life lived according to nature, with death defined as cessation of sense-impressions and appetites.
about the Brachmans' notion of death being the birth into real life and a happy life, to those who have philosophized; and he thinks Antoninus may allude to this opinion.[B] [A] "All events come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked: to the good and to the clean and to the unclean," &c. (Ecclesiastes, ix. v. 2); and (v. 3), "This is an evil among all things that are done und…
The author explains Stoicism’s origins and core theory: Zeno’s school in Athens, philosophy divided into physics, logic, and ethics, and the idea of living consistently with nature through virtue.
endurance, the other for unbridled licence. With Epicureanism we have nothing to do now; but it will be worth while to sketch the history and tenets of the Stoic sect. Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, was born in Cyprus at some date unknown, but his life may be said roughly to be between the years 350 and 250 B.C. Cyprus has been from time immemorial a meeting-place of the East and West, and although we cannot grant a…
The author introduces Stoic ethics by explaining the “summum bonum” as living according to nature, defining nature as God’s will, and describing “natural conceptions” (prolepseis) as criteria of moral truth learned through experience.
We turn now to that department of the Stoic philosophy with which the reader of Epictetus is most concerned--its Ethics. The ethical question resolves itself into a search for the supreme object of human endeavor, the *Summum Bonum*, the absolute and essential good. This, for the Stoic, embodied itself in the formula, "to live according to Nature." But what is Nature? The will of God, as revealed in the heart and co…