The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics

CHAPTER XII.

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ETHICS: 3. APPLIED MORAL SCIENCE.

A. The Individual 301 1. Importance attaching to the individual 301 2. Cynicism of the Stoics 305 B. Social Relations 311 1. Origin and use of society 311 2. Justice and mercy 315 3. Friendship 317 4. The family and civil life—aversion to political life—citizenship of the world 320 C. Man and the Course of the World 332 1. Submission to the course of nature 332 2. Suicide 335