Panaetius of Rhodes · Philosophy
The central problem Panaetius set for ethics - the apparent clashes between the <em>honestum</em> (what is honourable) and the <em>utile</em> (what is advantageous) - and the resolution, worked out through Cicero, that nothing truly dishonourable can ever be truly useful, so the conflict is always only apparent.
You learned that Panaetius framed practical ethics around three questions - is an act honourable ( honestum ), is it useful ( utile ), and what of apparent conflicts between them - but left the third unwritten, so that Cicero completed it in De Officiis Book III, arguing that nothing dishonourable can be truly useful.…
Leads to Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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