https://www.superphysics.org/tags/anti-stoic/ Recent content in Anti-Stoic on Superphysics Hugo en Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-43/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.superphysics.org/research/diogenes/lives/chapter-43/ <p>¹ Herillus was:</p> <ul> <li>a native of Carthage</li> </ul> <p>He said that:</p> <ul> <li>the chief good was knowledge</li> <li>we should live according to knowledge, and not be misled by ignorance</li> <li>that knowledge was a habit not departing from reason in the reception of perceptions</li> <li>there was no such thing as a chief good</li> <li>circumstances and events changed the good, just as the same piece of brass might become a statue either of Alexander or of Socrates</li> <li>the chief good or end (τέλος]), there was a subordinate end (ὑποτελίς) different from it</li> <li>those who were not wise aimed at the latter</li> <li>only the wise man directed his views to the former</li> <li>all the things between virtue and vice were indifferent</li> </ul> <p>² His books contain a few lines. But they are full of power, and contain arguments in opposition to Zeno.</p>