green numbers give full details.     |    back to list of philosophers     |     unexpand these ideas

---

Ideas of Ariston, by Text

[Greek, 290 - 230 BCE, Born on the island of Chios. Taught by Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic movement. Lectured in the Cynosarges.]

250BCE

fragments/reports

	p.4	20768	Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless
			Full Idea: He said that dialectical arguments were like spiderswebs: although they seem to indicate craftsmanlike skill, they are useless.
			From: report of Ariston (fragments/reports [c.250 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.161
			A reaction: Useful for the spider, but useless to Ariston.

	p.100	3549	Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous
			Full Idea: Ariston says that rules are useless if you are virtuous, and useless if you are not.
			From: report of Ariston (fragments/reports [c.250 BCE]) by Julia Annas - The Morality of Happiness 2.4

	p.318	3049	The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice
			Full Idea: The chief good is to live in perfect indifference to all those things which are of an intermediate character between virtue and vice.
			From: report of Ariston (fragments/reports [c.250 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.2.1