The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers
The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers
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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
PACK<br />
Interest <strong>of</strong> Democritus scientific, that <strong>of</strong> Epicurus religious 120<br />
.<br />
1<br />
Epicurean special teaching<br />
Criticism <strong>of</strong> Democritus s velocity<br />
. , . . .120<br />
<strong>of</strong> atoms . . .120<br />
Democritus denied free will . . . . .121<br />
Structure <strong>of</strong> the soul to Democritus and to Epicurus .121<br />
.<br />
V<br />
Contrast <strong>of</strong> Epicurean cosmogony to <strong>Stoic</strong> . . .121<br />
Fortuitous clash <strong>of</strong> atoms versus teleology<br />
. . .122<br />
Materialism unable to account for Life and Consciousness .<br />
123<br />
Surmounted in Epicureanism by tacit .<br />
assumption .124<br />
Epicurean Criterion <strong>of</strong> Truth . . . .<br />
.124<br />
Epicurean doctrine <strong>of</strong> free will .125<br />
. . . .<br />
SECTION C<br />
MORALITY AND RELIGION<br />
CHAPTER VII<br />
PREDECESSORS OF THE STOICS IN ETHICS<br />
I<br />
Plato little effective with <strong>Stoic</strong>s, and why<br />
. . 126<br />
Certain Platonic doctrines taken over . . . .<br />
127<br />
Aristotle little effective also in Ethics, and why<br />
. .<br />
129<br />
Voluntarism versus intellectualism . . .<br />
.130<br />
k <strong>The</strong> Cynic influence . . . . .<br />
130<br />
J Zeno and Crates . . . . . .<br />
.130<br />
Antisthenes in Symposium <strong>of</strong> . .<br />
Xenophon 131<br />
II<br />
133-<br />
v/<strong>The</strong> <strong>Stoic</strong>s indebted to it . . . . .<br />
134<br />
Cynic s Ideal . . .<br />
Sage<br />
. .<br />
131<br />
Dangers <strong>of</strong> best......<br />
. . . .<br />
self-sufficiency .132<br />
Not<br />
y escaped by the . . . . .<br />
Cynics 132<br />
/<br />
<strong>The</strong> doctrine at its<br />
Life in accordance with nature the Cynic view . 134<br />
Savages and the lower animals, the types<br />
. . .<br />
134<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Stoic</strong> contrast, with results . . .<br />
.135<br />
Cynics and the Allegorical method . . . .<br />
136<br />
Followed by the <strong>Stoic</strong>s . . . . . .136<br />
How the <strong>Stoic</strong>s differed from the Cynics<br />
. .<br />
137<br />
Summary by Sir A. Grant . . . . . 137
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