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The Paradoxa Stoicorum (English: Stoic Paradoxes) is a work by the academic skeptic philosopher Cicero in which he attempts to explain six famous Stoic sayings that appear to go against common understanding: (1) virtue is the sole good; (2) virtue is the sole requisite for happiness; (3) all good deeds are equally virtuous and all bad deeds ...
Oct 10, 2018 · The Paradoxa Stoicorum (English: Stoic Paradoxes) is a work by Cicero in which he attempts to explain six famous Stoic sayings that appear to go against common knowledge.
Murena Catone accusante Stoicorum παράδοξα perstringit et in librorum de Finibus III. et IV. eorundem austeritati moderandum esse censet, tamen non tam doctrinae rationem illorum improbat quam sermonis insolentiam. Ac primo quidem loco bonum sola honestate contineri, deinde secundo tamquam consectario ostendit honestissimum quemque in ...
Paradoxa Stoicorum. Paradox V. That only the wise man is free, and that every foolish man is a slave.
This book consists of six short essays setting out the most striking ethical doctrines of the Stoic school of philosophy: that virtue is the sole good, and the sole requisite for happiness; that all good deeds are equally meritorious and all bad deeds equally heinous; that folly is insanity and slavery, wisdom the only freedom and the only riches.
These doctrines are surprising, b and they run counter to universal opinion—the Stoics themselves actually term them paradoxa; so I wanted to try whether it is possible for them to be brought out into the light of common daily life and expounded in a form to win acceptance, or whether learning has one style of discourse and ordinary life ...
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