Diogenes Laërtius · fl. 3rd century CE
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.160 — Diogenes Laërtius on the Stoics
Translation by R. D. Hicks (1925)
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.160
Reported speech · Diogenes Laërtius on the Stoics
Such is the summary of their Physics which I have deemed adequate, my aim being to preserve a due proportion in my work. But the points on which certain of the Stoics differed from the rest are the following.
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Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.160 (on the Stoics), tr. R. D. Hicks (1925)
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Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VII, tr. R. D. Hicks (Loeb, 1925). Text: Perseus Digital Library (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sources and licences
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AI-written notesThe author ends his summary of Stoic physics and announces that he will now describe the points on which some Stoics broke from the school's mainstream.
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- Nature and the cosmos
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