The Relation of Stoic Intermediates to the Summum Bonum , with Reference to Change in the Stoa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9401867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I G Kidd (University of St Andrews, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 181-194 |
| Publication date | 1955-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800011435 |
| OpenAlex | W2097167685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Stoics maintained that virtue was the only good; everything else, therefore, was not-good. On the other hand, regarded by itself, this huge class was not equally valueless. Vice, of course, was bad; but everything else was thought to be ‘indifferent’: wealth, health, for example; indifferent, that is, with regard to the summum bonum . Of these Intermediates, men, from human nature, had a leaning to some; these were , had value, were called , that is, preferred, and virtue itself lay in choice exercised among them
Art · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Literature · Relation (database · Theology · Value (mathematics · Virtue · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
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| Citation span | 1994 - 2013 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |