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7 results for "cleanthes"
1. Aristotle, Poetics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on equality of all mistakes Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 69
2. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.127 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on equality of all mistakes Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 69
7.127. It is a tenet of theirs that between virtue and vice there is nothing intermediate, whereas according to the Peripatetics there is, namely, the state of moral improvement. For, say the Stoics, just as a stick must be either straight or crooked, so a man must be either just or unjust. Nor again are there degrees of justice and injustice; and the same rule applies to the other virtues. Further, while Chrysippus holds that virtue can be lost, Cleanthes maintains that it cannot. According to the former it may be lost in consequence of drunkenness or melancholy; the latter takes it to be inalienable owing to the certainty of our mental apprehension. And virtue in itself they hold to be worthy of choice for its own sake. At all events we are ashamed of bad conduct as if we knew that nothing is really good but the morally beautiful. Moreover, they hold that it is in itself sufficient to ensure well-being: thus Zeno, and Chrysippus in the first book of his treatise On Virtues, and Hecato in the second book of his treatise On Goods:
3. Stobaeus, Anthology, 2.65.7-2.65.11 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on equality of all mistakes Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 69
4. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 1.224, 1.566, 3.536  Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on equality of all mistakes Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 69
5. Long And Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, None  Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on equality of all mistakes Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 69
6. Plutarch, Synopsis, None  Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on equality of all mistakes Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 69