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The Relation of Stoic Intermediates to the Summum Bonum, with Reference to Change in the Stoa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

I. G. Kidd
Affiliation:
The United College of St. Salvator and St. Leonard, University of St. Andrews

Extract

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.

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