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| 20866 | Wise men participate in politics, especially if it shows moral progress [Stobaeus] |
| 20854 | Wise men are never astonished at things which other people take to be wonders [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20815 | No wise man has yet been discovered [Cicero] |
| 20806 | Stoic physics concerns cosmos, elements and causes (with six detailed divisions) [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20839 | Ethics studies impulse, good, passion, virtue, goals, value, action, appropriateness, encouragement [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20867 | True philosophising is not memorising ideas, but living by them [Stobaeus] |
| 21675 | Some facts are indispensable for an effect, and others actually necessitate the effect [Cicero] |
| 20775 | Stoics study canons, criteria and definitions, in order to find the truth [Diog. Laertius] |
| 21393 | Stoics believed that rational capacity in man (logos) is embodied in the universe [Long] |
| 21810 | The Stoics distinguished spoken logos from logos within the mind [Plotinus] |
| 20776 | Dialectics is mastery of question and answer form [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20849 | Falsehoods corrupt a mind, producing passions and instability [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20823 | The truth bearers are said to be the signified, or the signifier, or the meaning of the signifier [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 20778 | Stoics like syllogisms, for showing what is demonstrative, which corrects opinions [Diog. Laertius] |
| 21400 | Stoics avoided universals by paraphrasing 'Man is...' as 'If something is a man, then it is...' [Long] |
| 20788 | The contradictory of a contradictory is an affirmation [Diog. Laertius] |
| 21594 | Stoics applied bivalence to sorites situations, so everyone is either vicious or wholly virtuous [Williamson] |
| 20824 | Stoics have four primary categories: substrates, qualities, dispositions, relative dispositions [Simplicius] |
| 20817 | Platonic Forms are just our thoughts [Ps-Plutarch] |
| 6037 | Stoics say matter has qualities, and substance underlies it, with no form or qualities [Chalcidius] |
| 20825 | How is divisibility possible, if stoics say things remain united when they are divided? [Alexander] |
| 20826 | How is separateness possible, if separated things are always said to be united? [Alexander] |
| 20872 | Stoics say wholes are more than parts, but entirely consist of parts [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 20790 | A proposition is possible if it is true when nothing stops it being true [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20789 | Conditionals are false if the falsehood of the conclusion does not conflict with the antecedent [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20783 | Knowledge is a secure grasp of presentations which cannot be reversed by argument [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20868 | Two sorts of opinion: either poorly grounded belief, or weak belief [Stobaeus] |
| 20784 | There are non-sensible presentations, which come to us through the intellect [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20803 | Stoics say we are born like a blank sheet of paper; the first concepts on it are sensations [Ps-Plutarch] |
| 6025 | At birth the soul is a blank sheet ready to be written on [Aetius] |
| 20781 | Non-graspable presentations are from what doesn't exist, or are not clear and distinct [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20792 | Stoic perception is a presentation to which one voluntarily assents [Stobaeus] |
| 20805 | All our concepts come from experience, directly, or by expansion, reduction or compounding [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 20782 | Dialectic is a virtue which contains other virtues [Diog. Laertius] |
| 1772 | For Stoics knowledge is an assertion which never deviates from the truth [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20779 | Demonstration derives what is less clear from what is clear [Diog. Laertius] |
| 23251 | The Stoics think that soul in the narrow sense is nothing but reason [Frede,M] |
| 20809 | Eight parts of the soul: five senses, seeds, speech and reason [Diog. Laertius] |
| 23321 | Division of the soul divides a person, reducing responsibility for the nonrational part [Frede,M] |
| 23267 | Stoics say the soul is a mixture of air and fire [Galen] |
| 20785 | Our conceptions arise from experience, similarity, analogy, transposition, composition and opposition [Diog. Laertius] |
| 7502 | For Stoics the true self is defined by what I can be master of [Foucault] |
| 23327 | Stoics expanded the idea of compulsion, and contracted what counts as one's own actions [Frede,M] |
| 7672 | The free will problem was invented by the Stoics [Berlin] |
| 23315 | The nearest to ancient determinism is Stoic fate, but that is controlled by a sympathetic God [Frede,M] |
| 4014 | Stoics classify passions according to the opinion of good and bad which they imply [Taylor,C] |
| 23988 | There are four basic emotions: pleasure or delight, distress, appetite, and fear [Cicero] |
| 6594 | Stoics said that correct judgement needs an invincible criterion of truth [Fogelin] |
| 20804 | Concepts are intellectual phantasms [Ps-Plutarch] |
| 20786 | Predicates are incomplete 'lekta' [Diog. Laertius] |
| 23322 | Humans have rational impressions, which are conceptual, and are true or false [Frede,M] |
| 20777 | Rhetoric has three types, four modes, and four sections [Diog. Laertius] |
| 23323 | Earlier Stoics speak of assent, but not of choice, let alone of a will [Frede,M] |
| 23305 | Stoics said responsibility depends on rationality [Sorabji] |
| 1907 | Stoics use 'kalon' (beautiful) as a synonym for 'agathon' (good) [Bury] |
| 22757 | Stoics say that folly alone is evil [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 20846 | Prime values apply to the life in agreement; useful values apply to the natural life [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20847 | The appraiser's value is what is set by someone experienced in the facts [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20870 | The goal is to live consistently with the constitution of a human being [Clement] |
| 22238 | Stoics said health is an 'indifferent', but they still considered it preferable [Pormann] |
| 20861 | The health of the soul is a good blend of beliefs [Stobaeus] |
| 3553 | Stoic morality says that one's own happiness will lead to impartiality [Annas] |
| 20851 | Virtuous men do not feel sexual desire, which merely focuses on physical beauty [Diog. Laertius] |
| 7499 | Stoicism was an elitist option to lead a beautiful life [Foucault] |
| 20843 | Final goods: confidence, prudence, freedom, enjoyment and no pain, good spirits, virtue [Diog. Laertius] |
| 22753 | Happiness for the Stoics was an equable flow of life [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 20865 | Happiness is the end and goal, achieved by living virtuously, in agreement, and according to nature [Stobaeus] |
| 20840 | Stoics say pleasure is at most a byproduct of finding what is suitable for us [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20852 | Rapture is a breakdown of virtue [Diog. Laertius] |
| 6895 | If humans are citizens of the world (not just a state) then virtue is all good human habits [Mautner] |
| 20848 | An appropriate action is one that can be defended, perhaps by its consistency. [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20844 | Honour is just, courageous, orderly or knowledgeable. It is praiseworthy, or functions well [Diog. Laertius] |
| 4012 | The Stoics rejected entirely the high value that had been placed on contemplation [Taylor,C] |
| 5073 | Stoics do not despise external goods, but subject them to reason, and not to desire [Taylor,R] |
| 20862 | Crafts like music and letters are virtuous conditions, and they accord with virtue [Stobaeus] |
| 5072 | For Stoics, obligations are determined by social role [Taylor,R] |
| 21396 | Man is distinguished by knowing conditional truths, because impressions are connected [Long] |
| 1781 | Stoics favour a mixture of democracy, monarchy and aristocracy [Diog. Laertius] |
| 21384 | The Stoics saw the whole world as a city [Long] |
| 20859 | The best government blends democracy, monarchy and aristocracy [Diog. Laertius] |
| 3561 | Stoics originated the concept of natural law, as agreed correct reasoning [Annas] |
| 3046 | Stoics say a wise man will commit suicide if he has a good enough reason [Diog. Laertius] |
| 20858 | Suicide is reasonable, for one's country or friends, or because of very bad health [Diog. Laertius] |
| 3556 | Stoic 'nature' is deterministic, physical and teleological [Annas] |
| 22743 | Unlike Epicurus, Stoics distinguish the Whole from the All, with the latter including the void [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 13296 | The cosmos has two elements - passive matter, and active cause (or reason) which shapes it [Seneca] |
| 20827 | The cosmos is regularly consumed and reorganised by the primary fire [Aristocles] |
| 7815 | Early Stoics called the logos 'god', meaning not a being, but the principle of the universe |
| 6038 | Stoics say god is matter, or an inseparable quality of it, or is the power within it [Chalcidius] |
| 20829 | Virtuous souls endure till the end, foolish souls for a short time, animal souls not at all [Eusebius] |
| 6039 | Stoics say virtuous souls last till everything ends in fire, but foolish ones fade away |