The Sense of Moral Progress

Stoicism is a philosophy with something to say to all of us, whether slave or emperor. The development of stoicism sees the school tun evermore towards ethical concerns and concrete reflection on what stoicism means for us in our everyday lives. We'll be looking at three of the roman stoics very soon, but first i want to do some reflecting of our own on the question of how we from the early stoicism of zeno and chrysippus to the later stoicism of the empire. For this, there's no more appropriate person than penatius who did as much as any one to put stoicism and hellenistic philosophy as a whole, within the circle