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The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers

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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

xix<br />

PAGE<br />

Alien to man and a hindrance . . .<br />

199<br />

Correct view . . . . . 1<br />

99<br />

Slovenly neglect <strong>of</strong> the body condemned by <strong>Stoic</strong>s . . 200<br />

.<br />

<strong>The</strong> reasons given by Epictetus<br />

200<br />

Death as a thing indifferent<br />

. . . 201<br />

Suicide allowed .... 202<br />

Shows an inadequate notion <strong>of</strong> both God and man . . 202<br />

Counselled infanticide . 203<br />

IV<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Stoic</strong>s unjust to Epicurean Hedonism . . . 203<br />

Wrong view <strong>of</strong> Pleasure and Pain . . 203<br />

Laid stress on the lower pleasures<br />

. .<br />

204<br />

.....<br />

Epicurus s view <strong>of</strong> pleasure 204<br />

Epicurus s doctrine <strong>of</strong> desire 205<br />

Hedonism and noble aspirations<br />

. . - 206<br />

CHAPTER XI<br />

THEOLOGY AND RELIGION<br />

Metaphysics <strong>of</strong> ethics . . . 208<br />

Can there be ethics without metaphysics . 208<br />

? .<br />

I<br />

THE WORLD ONE AND PERFECT<br />

This the view sub specie ceternitatis . . . .210<br />

No such thing as evil or as sin . . . .210<br />

PROVIDENCE : OPTIMISM<br />

<strong>The</strong> course <strong>of</strong> the world teleologically determined . .211<br />

Providence both universal and special<br />

. . .211<br />

<strong>Stoic</strong>al optimism the result .212<br />

. . . .<br />

Nevertheless, the <strong>Stoic</strong> sometimes pessimistic<br />

. .212<br />

Cheerful acquiescence in the World-Order . . .213<br />

Significance for the .<br />

present day<br />

. .<br />

-213<br />

IS GOD PERSONAL OR IMPERSONAL?<br />

Discrepancy between <strong>Stoic</strong> Physics and Ethics here . .214<br />

Epictetus almost monotheist . . . . 214<br />

.<br />

Aurelius pantheistic<br />

. . . . . .<br />

215<br />

Difficulty in . . .<br />

determining<br />

.<br />

215<br />

Deity both all-pervasive essence and Moral . . .216

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