The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Heracleitus, as influencing Stoic ethics . .
138
His doctrine of the Logos
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.138
Its ethical bearings
. . . . . .
139
Stoicism and Matthew Arnold . . . . .
139
CHAPTER VIII
// ETHICS: EXPOSITION
I
140
142
142
143
143
Man a compound being, according to Stoics . . . 140
Marcus Aurelius s view......
Body, in relation to soul . . . . .141
Inconsistent Stoic positions .....
Man as reason (rd rjyefj.oviK6v)
. . .
.142
Nature of the soul, according to later Stoicism . .
142
"
Living agreeably to ..... nature" what? . . 142
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In the view of Cleanthes
As expressed by Epictetus
..... In the view of Chrysippus
The views complementary of each other . 144
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II
Wherein happiness consists . . . .
144
Control, even eradicate, the desires . . . .
145
Life worth living, according to the Stoic . . .
146
Chrysippus and . . . .
Epictetus .146
Where difficulty lies . . . . . .
147
PLEASURE, APATHY, DESIRE
Nothing external can really affect us . . 147
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Pleasure and pain in Stoics view .... 147
Aurelius and Cleanthes...... 148
Passionlessness or Apathy (airddfta) 149
Characteristics of the Wise Man .... 149
Suicide when allowable . . . . I
5 I
Doctrine of "the
151
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"
open door
VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS
Relation between the two . . . . J
5 2
Virtue defined . . . , . . .
152