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The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers

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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

PAGE<br />

<strong>The</strong> crown <strong>of</strong> the sciences . . . .<br />

-49<br />

A synonym for<br />

. . . .<br />

philosophy<br />

-49<br />

Included ethics, politics, and natural . .<br />

theology 50<br />

Practical rules for the guidance -5<br />

<strong>of</strong> life . . .<br />

III<br />

Characterization <strong>of</strong> <strong>Stoic</strong> philosophy<br />

. . .<br />

.51<br />

IV<br />

Demands on personal character . . .<br />

52<br />

Simplicity <strong>of</strong> aim and sincerity <strong>of</strong> conviction . . 52<br />

Consistency and nobility <strong>of</strong> life . . . . .<br />

53<br />

Wide sympathies<br />

. . . . .<br />

-S3<br />

High idea <strong>of</strong> vocation . . . . . -54<br />

Personal habits and outward appearance<br />

V<br />

Stages in the development <strong>of</strong> <strong>Stoic</strong>ism . . . 56<br />

As determined by Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus<br />

. .<br />

57<br />

Advance by Presidents <strong>of</strong> Middle Stoa . . .<br />

-57<br />

Panaetius and Posidonius . . . .<br />

58<br />

Eclecticism <strong>of</strong> Roman period<br />

. . . .<br />

58<br />

Subordination <strong>of</strong> everything to Ethics . . . -59<br />

Pantheism tending to <strong>The</strong>ism . . . .<br />

-59<br />

Cosmopolitanism operative<br />

. . . . .60<br />

<strong>The</strong> philosopher as preacher<br />

. . . . .61<br />

J<br />

LOGIC :<br />

-.CHAPTER IV<br />

THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE<br />

I<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Stoic</strong>s and Rhetoric . . . . .62<br />

.......<br />

II<br />

Enthusiasm <strong>of</strong> earlier <strong>Stoic</strong>s for Formal Logic<br />

. .<br />

63<br />

Chrysippus 63<br />

Logic as a safeguard against error .64<br />

. . .<br />

Aoyos v5id0Tos and X6*yos trp<strong>of</strong>iopiKos<br />

. . .<br />

.65<br />

III<br />

Logic as Epistemology . . . . . .66

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