History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 052 - Fighting Over Socrates - the Hellenistic Schools
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Oct 30, 2011 AI Snips
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Socrates' Multiple Legacies
- Socratic following meant different things: lifestyle, method, or doctrine.
- Peter Adamson argues true Socraticness requires giving particular ethical answers.
Diogenes: Shocking Socratic Heir
- Diogenes and the cynics imitated Socrates by choosing poverty and shocking behavior.
- Peter Adamson notes their social criticism aimed to expose hypocrisy and defend virtue.
Stoics Prioritized Virtue
- Early Stoics adopted cynic-influenced Socratic ethics, making virtue and wisdom central.
- Peter Adamson adds Stoics allowed lesser goods like health as 'preferred indifferents'.