The Roman Stoics Are More Concerned With Practical Philosophy Than Ethics

Roman stoic authors are perhaps more concerned with something we might call practical philosophy, rather than emphasizing ethics at the expense of physics or logic. A good method for all these undergraduates out there who are agrieved at having to take introductory logic to absolutely or absolutely so. There's a sense in which the theories that found the philosophical schools that are popular in this period have already been established. If you're an epicurean, you read epicurus, and you either find it attractive or you don't, but broadly speaking, if you've made the exestential decision to become an epicureans, you buy the theory. And the same for the stoics.