A Little Book of Stoicism
St George Stock
Table of Contents
A Little Book of Stoicism....................................................................................................................................1
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FOREWORD...........................................................................................................................................1
PHILOSOPHY AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS...................................................................1
DIVISION OF PHILOSOPHY................................................................................................................3
LOGIC.....................................................................................................................................................4
ETHIC......................................................................................................................................................9
PHYSIC.................................................................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION......................................................................................................................................22
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DIVISION OF PHILOSOPHY.•
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CONCLUSION•
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A GUIDE TO STOICISM
by St. George Stock
TEN CENT POCKET SERIES NO. 347
Edited by E. Haldeman−Julius.
FOREWORD
If you strip Stoicism of its paradoxes and its wilful misuse of language, what is left is simply the moral
philosophy of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, dashed with the physics of Heraclitus. Stoicism was not so much
a new doctrine as the form under which the old Greek philosophy finally presented itself to the world at large.
It owed its popularity in some measure to its extravagance. A great deal might be said about Stoicism as a
religion and about the part it played in the formation of Christianity but these subjects were excluded by the
plan of this volume which was to present a sketch of the Stoic doctrine based on the original authorities.
ST GEORGE STOCK M A
Pemb. Coll. Oxford
A GUIDE TO STOICISM.
ST GEORGE STOCK
PHILOSOPHY AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS.
Among the Greeks and Romans of the classical age philosophy occupied the place taken by religion among
ourselves. Their appeal was to reason not to revelation. To what, asks Cicero in his Offices, are we to look for
training in virtue, if not to philosophy? Now, if truth is believed to rest upon authority it is natural that it
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