Zeno of Citium · Philosophy
Zeno fixed the goal of human life in a single phrase: <em>live in agreement with nature</em>. To understand it is to understand the whole of Stoic ethics - for ‘nature’ here means both the rational order of the cosmos and the rational nature we share as human beings.
You learned that Zeno defined the human telos - the goal or end of life - as ‘living in agreement,’ which Cleanthes expanded to ‘living in agreement with nature.’ ‘Nature’ means two things at once: the rational order of the whole cosmos, and the rational nature proper to a human bei…
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