What are the key differences of opinions between the Stoics?

April 6, 2019 4:51 AM

I'm trying to improve my understanding of stoic philosophy and one way I've found to increase the resolution of my understanding is to try to identify the key differences between different proponents of a view. So what are the key differences and disagreements we can identify between them?
posted by casebash to Religion & Philosophy (3 answers total)

Best answer: History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast (RSS feed):

• Introducing the Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans and Cynics, the schools of the Hellenistic age
• HoP 060 - Walking on Eggshells - the Stoics on Logic
• HoP 061 - Nobody’s Perfect - the Stoics on Knowledge
• HoP 062 - We Didn’t Start the Fire - the Stoics on Nature
• HoP 063 - Like a Rolling Stone - Stoic Ethics
• HoP 064 - David Sedley on Stoicism
• HoP 065 - Anger Management - Seneca
• HoP 066 - You Can Chain My Leg - Epictetus
• HoP 067 - The Philosopher King - Marcus Aurelius
• HoP 068 - John Sellars on the Roman Stoics

posted by XMLicious at 7:21 AM on April 6, 2019 [6 favorites]

And from another AskMe: stoicism entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
posted by XMLicious at 7:30 AM on April 6, 2019

Best answer: There's a big shift between the early Greek Stoics (whose teachings did not survive other than second-hand reports of their views) and the later Roman Stoics. Early Stoics had more radical views (abolish marriage, gender neutral-clothing) while Romans like Musonius Rufus were more tolerant of the existing social order.
posted by mmmbacon at 8:41 AM on April 6, 2019