PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Neostoicism, Rubellius Plautus, Pierre Hadot
13 Jan 2013
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Cynic principles: superiority of nature over culture. Live according to nature (like a dog: ethical orientation. Philosophy is an art of living well: discipline (askesis). Everything else is indifferent: virtue is life according to nature, reasonable, complete rationality, requires training and discipline. Stoics the sage: happy in all circumstances, happiness is independent of everything external, without passions, accepts everything. Acts in harmony with reason and nature: sees the big picture and always acts for the best. Body: unqualified passive matter + qualification, qualities; e. g. , shape, mass, color. Pneuma: cosmic breath: a body, mixture of fire + air, mixes with all other bodies, source of qualities of bodies, identified with divine logos. Cognitive impressions: sense impressions + correct logical judgment. Chrysippus: fate is a natural order of the whole by which from eternity one thing follows another and derives from it in an unalterable interdependence. Antecedent causes: events leading up to a change and persisting after the effect.
