The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers

266 APPENDIX
Education aim at the ideal.
Not one of these has full
perception of that at which it aims and
; yet the con
cept is definite enough to be effective. Shall the ideal
of the metaphysician alone be incompetent, as being
/the ideal of a whole interpenetrating- and inclusive of
all human aspirations and activities (both theoretical
and practical), and giving- meaning to every other ideal ?
At any rate, it is implicitly supposed in science, as in
the other provinces, and its ineradicability from human
nature, and the satisfaction that it
brings
to the in
dividual in harmonizing life and experience, should
commend it to the pragmatist and humanist, to whom
harmony and satisfaction are everything.