Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory

Ethics 197 not [to do], such as things like this: neglecting our parents, ignoring our brothers, being out of sympathy with our ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 101 Plutarch On Peace of Mind 474c ( 490 U) [1-149] "He who has least need o ...

198 l/-94 Fear is the expectation of something bad. These [forms] are brought under fear: dread, hesitation, shame, shock, panic ...

102 /-155 to //-1 escaping detection. (1090d) That is the source of the fear about the future which always weighs on them and do ...

Ethics 199 to desire, being a reasonable striving. So just as there are certain passions which are forms of the primary ones, so ...

II: Stoicism Lives of the Stoics Diogenes Laertius 7.1-38 (selections), 160-202 [11-1] (selections) Zeno, the son of Mnaseas or ...

200 l/-94 Chrysippus, in book four of his Ethical Investigations, and Persaeus and Zeno. For if one truth is not more [true] tha ...

104 //-1 He used to set out his arguments while walking back and forth in the Painted Stoa which was also named for Peisianax, b ...

Ethics 201 from the gods, according to Posidonius in book one of his On Appropriate Actions and Hecaton in book three of On Para ...

Lives of the Stoics 105 pher" ... 28. In fact he surpassed everyone in this form of virtue and in gravity and, Yes by Zeus! in b ...

202 l/-94 to l/-95 rate, we are ashamed at things we do badly, as though we knew that only the honourable is good. And it is suf ...

106 //-1 include the following. Persaeus of Citium, son of Demetrius; some say he was his follower, others that he was a member ...

Ethics 203 best form of government is that which is a blend of democracy and monarchy and aristocracy. And this is the sort of t ...

Lives of the Stoics 107 him. And he opposed Arcesilaus; when he saw a deformed bull with a womb he said, "Woe is me! Arcesilaus ...

204 l/-95 proper value to each person. Courage is knowledge of what is terrible and what is not terrible and what is neither. Fo ...

108 //-1 Cleanthes after [studying with] Zeno; he had made considerable progress in argumentation and then went off to Alexandri ...

Ethics 205 edge of fairness in a community; fair-dealing is knowledge of how to deal with one's neighbours blamelessly. 5b3. The ...

Lives of the Stoics 109 he was called to a sacrifice by his students; there he drank sweet, unmixed wine, and losing his head le ...

206 l/-95 striking the white line, it might be, another by striking the black and another by striking another coloured line. For ...

110 Il-l to //-3 friendship-for then friendship will be on sale for profit; and [so too] for [making money] from wisdom-for then ...