
HoP 064 - David Sedley on Stoicism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Zeno's Sense of Charity
For zeno, they had to go by the letter of the text. Some many important questions zeno left open. And the sentne had his text didn't fully determined it. Sometimes zeno had sensed something quite explicit that there was no way they could get out of an they were left with the defendin. The most embarrassing case is that, in zeno's own day, medical opinion tended to favour the view that the rational mind is in the chest, rather than the head. But within a generation or two, medical science had proved that was false and that actually the rational mind was in the head. Even after that, even the most scientific of stoics felt committed to defending
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