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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

Its inwardness . . . . . .<br />

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Kinds <strong>of</strong> Duty the suitable and the right<br />

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154<br />

Virtue indivisible and insusceptible <strong>of</strong> . .<br />

degrees 154<br />

So with vice : all sins are equal<br />

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Only two classes <strong>of</strong> men the wise and the foolish<br />

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156<br />

Human nature . . .<br />

depraved .<br />

.156<br />

Length <strong>of</strong> days does not add to . .<br />

happiness 157<br />

Compare with teaching <strong>of</strong> .<br />

Spinoza<br />

. .<br />

.158<br />

Virtue its own reward . . . . . icjo.<br />

Vice its own punishment<br />

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59<br />

Virtue s worth independent <strong>of</strong> our appreciation <strong>of</strong> it . .<br />

159<br />

EPICUREAN<br />

.....<br />

HEDONISM<br />

Pleasure as summum bonum abhorrent to <strong>Stoic</strong>s . .160<br />

<strong>The</strong> term pleasure ambiguous 160<br />

Two meanings<br />

pain.....<br />

even <strong>of</strong> agreeable sensation . . .160<br />

<strong>The</strong> virtuous happy under 161<br />

Virtue not valued for the pleasure<br />

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it . . .<br />

brings 161<br />

<strong>Stoic</strong> psychology <strong>of</strong> pleasure 161 -<br />

Hedonism incompatible with altruism and . .<br />

sympathy 162<br />

If pleasure the chief good, wisdom nugatory<br />

. . . 162<br />

ENTHUSIASM OF HUMANITY<br />

Individual s bound with that <strong>of</strong> . . 162<br />

good up community<br />

Relation between self-interest and altruism . .<br />

.163<br />

What is the community ? .164<br />

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Humanity organism...... an 165<br />

Condemnation <strong>of</strong> Slavery<br />

165<br />

Consequences <strong>of</strong> Cosmopolitanism on earlier .<br />

teaching 166<br />

Forgiveness <strong>of</strong> injuries 166<br />

Function punishment...... <strong>of</strong> 167<br />

No one willingly injures another 167<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Stoic</strong> neither bigot nor hermit .... .....<br />

167<br />

His regard for social duties 168<br />

MORAL PROGRESS<br />

Virtue may be . . .<br />

taught<br />

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.170<br />

Progress in the moral life . . . . .170<br />

<strong>Stoic</strong>s divided as to whether virtue may be lost . .170<br />

Parallel in Christian theology . . t , . 171

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