St. George Stock (modern guide) · 1850–1922
A Guide to Stoicism 4 ¶27 — St. George Stock (modern guide)
From “Ethic”
Original English text (1908)
St. George Stock (modern guide), A Guide to Stoicism 4 ¶27
Among things indifferent in the former sense, some were in accordance with nature, some were contrary to nature and some were neither one nor the other. Health, strengths and soundness of the senses were in accordance with nature; sickness weakness and mutilation were contrary to nature, but such things as the fallibility of the soul and the vulnerability of the body were neither in accordance with nature nor yet contrary to nature, but just nature.
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St. George Stock (modern guide), A Guide to Stoicism 4 ¶27 (1908)
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St. George Stock, Stoicism (1908), text of the Haldeman-Julius reprint “A Guide to Stoicism”. Text: Project Gutenberg #7514. Sources and licences
In plain English
AI-written notesAmong things that are neither good nor bad, some fit with nature, like health and strength, and some go against it, like sickness and weakness. The soul's tendency to err and the body's vulnerability are neither; they are simply how nature made us.
Older wording
- “mutilation”
- — loss of a limb or body part
- “fallibility”
- — being liable to make mistakes
- “indifferent”
- — neither good nor bad in itself
Themes and situations
- Nature and the cosmos
- Illness and the body
- Virtue and character
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