The Stoic and Stoicism

The yearnings and strivings of the man on the street, the principles that governs his life, the main­springs of his conduct, the philosopher puts into words, defines, and weaves into a thought-structure so that in the formulated cogitations of the wise man of the world, may be seen the heart and mind of the race of men to which he belongs. Hence, as to the spirit per­vading it, as to the ethical ideas it sets forth, as to the principles upon which it reposed, Greek moral philo­sophy was no...