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Full Idea
Panaetius reformulated the Stoic goal as living in accordance with the starting-points given to us by nature.
Gist of Idea
Panaetius said we should live according to our natural starting-points
Source
report of Panaetius (fragments/reports [c.145 BCE]) by Elizabeth Asmis - Panaetius
Book Ref
'Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy', ed/tr. Zeyl,Donald J. [Fitzroy Dearborn 1997], p.362
A Reaction
This sounds remarkably like the substitution of meritocratic equality of opportunity for communistic actual equality. In other words, it doesn't sound very Stoic. 'Live according to nature' implies more restraint than this ambitious version.
6013 | Panaetius said we should live according to our natural starting-points [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
13318 | Nature doesn't give us virtue; we must unremittingly pursue it, as a training and an art [Seneca] |
13324 | Living contrary to nature is like rowing against the stream [Seneca] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
4856 | To live according to reason is to live according to the laws of human nature [Spinoza] |
4493 | Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"? [Nietzsche] |
4494 | Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity [Nietzsche] |
4498 | 'Love your enemy' is unnatural, for the natural law says 'love your neighbour and hate your enemy' [Nietzsche] |