Eudaimonism and Theology in Stoic Accounts of Virtue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4455702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Ga, Michael A Gass (0000-0003-2050-3951, corresponding author), Michael Gass |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-37 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2000.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W1983405730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The Stoics were unique among the major schools in the ancient world for maintaining that both virtue and happiness consist solely of "living in agreement with nature" (homologoumenos tei phusei zen). We know from a variety of texts that both Cleanthes and Chrysippus, if not also Zeno, characterized such conduct both in essentialist terms, as a matter of living purposively in a manner natural for the human species, and in cosmological terms, as a matter of living in agreement with the purposes of nature as a whole, this being regarded as identical to Zeus. This is not to suggest, however, that cosmo-theological speculation figured prominently in the ethical systems of the early Stoics. Judging from extant summaries and discussions of Stoic ethical doctrines, those doctrines were justified in a dialectical fashion, not by appeal to facts about the purposive order of nature but simply from an analysis of ethical concepts patterned after similar analyses by earlier philosophers (most notably, Aristotle). It is this kind of learning that Chrysippus apparently had in mind when he maintained that ethics should be studied prior to undertaking a systematic investigation of nature
Ancient philosophy · Appeal · Dialectic · Epistemology · Essentialism · Extant taxon · Happiness · SOCRATES · Stoicism · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Zeno's paradoxes · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
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