A Puzzle In Stoic Ethics

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Abstract This paper is an expression of perplexity. Recent decades have seen immense scholarly progress in our understanding of Stoicism; yet on some fundamental points the structure of Stoic moral theory remains, to me at any rate, quite obscure. This is true in particular of the Stoic doctrine of the ‘indifferents’[ineq], a doctrine so central to Stoicism that the puzzle I will be raising about it can also be phrased as the following general question: ‘How is a Stoic supposed to deliberate?’ If this question is as hard to answer as I think it is, then there is still a great deal which remains to be understood about Stoic moral theory.

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