St. George Stock (modern guide) · 1850–1922
A Guide to Stoicism 3 ¶1 — St. George Stock (modern guide)
From “Logic”
Original English text (1908)
St. George Stock (modern guide), A Guide to Stoicism 3 ¶1
The Stoics had a tremendous reputation for logic. In this department they were the successors or rather the supersessors of Aristotle. For after the death of Theophrastus the library of the Lyceum is said to have been buried underground at Scepsis until about a century before Christ, So that the Organon may actually have been lost to the world during that period. At all events under Strato the successor of Theophrastus who specialized in natural science the school had lost its comprehensiveness. Cicero even finds it consonant with dramatic propriety to make Cato charge the later Peripatetics with ignorance of logic! On the other hand Chrysippus became so famous for his logic as to create a general impression that if there were a logic among the gods it would be no other than the Chrysippean.
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AI-written notesThe Stoics were renowned for logic and effectively took over from Aristotle's declining school, whose books may have been lost for a time. Chrysippus was so celebrated that even the gods' logic, if there were one, would be his.
Older wording
- “Lyceum”
- — Aristotle's school in Athens
- “Organon”
- — Aristotle's collected works on logic
- “supersessors”
- — those who replace someone
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- Learning and progress
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