The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers
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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
IV<br />
.<br />
<strong>The</strong> relation <strong>of</strong> Socrates to the Sophists<br />
. . .11<br />
<strong>The</strong> Sophists as rhetoricians . . . . .n<br />
As philosophical educationists . . . . .12<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir philosophical standpoint<br />
. . . .<br />
13<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir connexion with politics<br />
. . . .<br />
13<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir art based in psychology . . . . 15<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir view <strong>of</strong> the nature <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Protagorean dictum :<br />
Thought . .<br />
Man the Measure<br />
. 15<br />
. . 16<br />
How met by Socrates . . . . .<br />
17<br />
His standard or criterion <strong>of</strong> Truth . . . .18<br />
V<br />
... 19<br />
Personal character <strong>of</strong> Socrates . . . . .18<br />
N Plato, in Phcedo ...<br />
Xenophon, in Memorabilia .19<br />
. . . .<br />
CHAPTER II<br />
THE STOIC MASTERS AND THEIR WRITINGS<br />
I<br />
Zeno <strong>of</strong> Citium, the founder . . . . .20<br />
Practical object in founding a new school . . .21<br />
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This explanatory <strong>of</strong> certain <strong>of</strong> the positions<br />
. . .21<br />
Nationality and character <strong>of</strong> Zeno . . . .21<br />
His debt to the various Greek schools . . .<br />
23<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Stoic</strong>s as Controversialists . . .<br />
.24<br />
f <strong>The</strong>ir polemic with Epicurus<br />
.<br />
.24<br />
&lt;<br />
Opposition to the . .<br />
Epicurean Cosmogony 25<br />
/<br />
Opposition to the Epicurean Ethics .<br />
(hedonistic)<br />
25<br />
Polemic with Pyrrho and the Sceptics<br />
.26<br />
. . .<br />
Meaning <strong>of</strong><br />
"<br />
the <strong>Stoic</strong> "<br />
. . . .<br />
philosophy<br />
26<br />
How it<br />
grew under the various masters . . 26<br />
Modern researches .... 27<br />
Place <strong>of</strong> Cleanthes . . . . .<br />
-27<br />
State <strong>of</strong> extant writings <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Stoic</strong>s . . . .28<br />
<strong>The</strong> Dissertations and Encheiridion <strong>of</strong> Epictetus<br />
. .<br />
29<br />
Seneca s philosophical writings<br />
. . 2 9<br />
Cicero s De Officiis<br />
. . . . .<br />
30<br />
Marcus Aurelius s Meditations . . . -3<br />
Lack <strong>of</strong> system, and the consequence . . . 3 1<br />
Teaching as tested by practice . . . . 3 2
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