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Roman Stoicism

Note 133 — Chapter XI · THE KINGDOM OF THE SOUL.

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So especially L. Stein: ‘um nun ihre Philosophie populär und mundgerecht zu machen, liessen sich die Stoiker zuweilen zu Äusserungen herbei, die dazu angethan waren, ihr ganzes philosophisches System umzustossen’ Psych. i 149. Further their Scottish critic: ‘thus did the later Stoicism try to meet the claims of the human heart, which the earlier Stoicism had to a large extent ignored’ W. L. Davidson, The Stoic creed, p. 98; again ‘die Lehre von der Fortdauer der Seele ... war nur für die grosse Menge berechnet’ H. A. Winckler, Stoicismus, p. 50. Zeller is much more judicial, Stoics, pp. 217-222.

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