The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics - College of Stoic Philosophers

62 THE STOICS.
Chap,
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is a proper knowledge and a riglit disposition, such
particular applications
will come of themselves without
teaching; but when these are wanting, all
exhortations are useless.'
(J) Views These views are mentioned as peculiar to Aristo,
*>f ^em r^^^ ^g points in which he differed from the rest of
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and Cle-
antJies. his School ; and, to judge from his controversial tone,
the opposite views were those almost universally
entertained by Stoics. That controversial tone, in
fact, appears to have been directed not only against
assailants from without— such as the Peripatetics
and Platonists—but far more against those members
of the Stoic School, who attached greater importance
tfiiitiTie did to special ethical investigations, and to
logical and physical enquiries. Among their number
must have been Zeno and Cleanthes ; for Zeno set
the example to his School of dividing philosophy
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witness
into logic, ethics, and natural science ;
the titles of his
logical and physical treatises'
et qune non descendat in pectus monitionibus tuis fama posusque
; (at illam habentcm sedit ; qui habet exactum judipnecepta
[? ad vitam beatam] cium de fugiendis peteiidisque,
plurimum ait proficere ipsa de- scit, quid sibi faciendum sit,
creta philosophi;e constitu- etiam te tacente; tota ergo
tioneraque summi boni, quam pars ista philosophia; submo-
qui bene intellexit ac didicit, veri potest. In § 17, he conquid
in quaque re faciendum tinues : A madman must be
sit, sibi ipse prsecepit. This is cured, and not exhorted nor
;
then further expanded follow- is there any difference between
ing Aristo. general madness and the mad-
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Seneca, § 12, asks for ness which is treated mediwhom
should such exhortations cally.
be necessary — for him who has
right
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Diog. vii. .39.
views of good and evil, or
for him who has them not ?
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Logical treatises, those
irepl Ki^fwv, h-vatit koX Qui non habet, nihil a te adjuikfyxoi-.
ir(p\ \6you—and if tliere were a
vabitur ; aures ejus contraria rhetoric (see p. 40, 3) the rfx'".