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Full Idea

The Stoics classified the passions according to the implicit (and erroneous) opinions about the good and bad that they contained.

Gist of Idea

Stoics classify passions according to the opinion of good and bad which they imply

Source

report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self §8

Book Ref

Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.149

A Reaction

This doesn't sound very promising, since nearly all emotions can be put to either a good or a bad use

The 91 ideas from Stoic school

20866 Wise men participate in politics, especially if it shows moral progress [Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
20854 Wise men are never astonished at things which other people take to be wonders [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20815 No wise man has yet been discovered [Stoic school, by Cicero]
20806 Stoic physics concerns cosmos, elements and causes (with six detailed divisions) [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20839 Ethics studies impulse, good, passion, virtue, goals, value, action, appropriateness, encouragement [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20867 True philosophising is not memorising ideas, but living by them [Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
20849 Falsehoods corrupt a mind, producing passions and instability [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
21810 The Stoics distinguished spoken logos from logos within the mind [Stoic school, by Plotinus]
21675 Some facts are indispensable for an effect, and others actually necessitate the effect [Stoic school, by Cicero]
20775 Stoics study canons, criteria and definitions, in order to find the truth [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
21393 Stoics believed that rational capacity in man (logos) is embodied in the universe [Stoic school, by Long]
20776 Dialectics is mastery of question and answer form [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20823 The truth bearers are said to be the signified, or the signifier, or the meaning of the signifier [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
20778 Stoics like syllogisms, for showing what is demonstrative, which corrects opinions [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
21400 Stoics avoided universals by paraphrasing 'Man is...' as 'If something is a man, then it is...' [Stoic school, by Long]
20788 The contradictory of a contradictory is an affirmation [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
23267 Stoics say the soul is a mixture of air and fire [Stoic school, by Galen]
20777 Rhetoric has three types, four modes, and four sections [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
21594 Stoics applied bivalence to sorites situations, so everyone is either vicious or wholly virtuous [Stoic school, by Williamson]
20824 Stoics have four primary categories: substrates, qualities, dispositions, relative dispositions [Stoic school, by Simplicius]
3553 Stoic morality says that one's own happiness will lead to impartiality [Stoic school, by Annas]
21384 The Stoics saw the whole world as a city [Stoic school, by Long]
20817 Platonic Forms are just our thoughts [Stoic school, by Ps-Plutarch]
20859 The best government blends democracy, monarchy and aristocracy [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
6037 Stoics say matter has qualities, and substance underlies it, with no form or qualities [Stoic school, by Chalcidius]
20825 How is divisibility possible, if stoics say things remain united when they are divided? [Alexander on Stoic school]
20826 How is separateness possible, if separated things are always said to be united? [Alexander on Stoic school]
20872 Stoics say wholes are more than parts, but entirely consist of parts [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
7672 The free will problem was invented by the Stoics [Stoic school, by Berlin]
20790 A proposition is possible if it is true when nothing stops it being true [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20789 Conditionals are false if the falsehood of the conclusion does not conflict with the antecedent [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20783 Knowledge is a secure grasp of presentations which cannot be reversed by argument [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20868 Two sorts of opinion: either poorly grounded belief, or weak belief [Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
20784 There are non-sensible presentations, which come to us through the intellect [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20803 Stoics say we are born like a blank sheet of paper; the first concepts on it are sensations [Stoic school, by Ps-Plutarch]
6025 At birth the soul is a blank sheet ready to be written on [Stoic school, by Aetius]
20781 Non-graspable presentations are from what doesn't exist, or are not clear and distinct [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20809 Eight parts of the soul: five senses, seeds, speech and reason [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20792 Stoic perception is a presentation to which one voluntarily assents [Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
20805 All our concepts come from experience, directly, or by expansion, reduction or compounding [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
20782 Dialectic is a virtue which contains other virtues [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
1772 For Stoics knowledge is an assertion which never deviates from the truth [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20779 Demonstration derives what is less clear from what is clear [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
23251 The Stoics think that soul in the narrow sense is nothing but reason [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
23321 Division of the soul divides a person, reducing responsibility for the nonrational part [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
20785 Our conceptions arise from experience, similarity, analogy, transposition, composition and opposition [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
7502 For Stoics the true self is defined by what I can be master of [Stoic school, by Foucault]
23327 Stoics expanded the idea of compulsion, and contracted what counts as one's own actions [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
23315 The nearest to ancient determinism is Stoic fate, but that is controlled by a sympathetic God [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
4014 Stoics classify passions according to the opinion of good and bad which they imply [Stoic school, by Taylor,C]
23988 There are four basic emotions: pleasure or delight, distress, appetite, and fear [Stoic school, by Cicero]
6594 Stoics said that correct judgement needs an invincible criterion of truth [Stoic school, by Fogelin]
20804 Concepts are intellectual phantasms [Stoic school, by Ps-Plutarch]
20786 Predicates are incomplete 'lekta' [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
23322 Humans have rational impressions, which are conceptual, and are true or false [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
23323 Earlier Stoics speak of assent, but not of choice, let alone of a will [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
23305 Stoics said responsibility depends on rationality [Stoic school, by Sorabji]
1907 Stoics use 'kalon' (beautiful) as a synonym for 'agathon' (good) [Bury on Stoic school]
22757 Stoics say that folly alone is evil [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
20846 Prime values apply to the life in agreement; useful values apply to the natural life [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20847 The appraiser's value is what is set by someone experienced in the facts [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20870 The goal is to live consistently with the constitution of a human being [Stoic school, by Clement]
22238 Stoics said health is an 'indifferent', but they still considered it preferable [Stoic school, by Pormann]
20861 The health of the soul is a good blend of beliefs [Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
20851 Virtuous men do not feel sexual desire, which merely focuses on physical beauty [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
7499 Stoicism was an elitist option to lead a beautiful life [Stoic school, by Foucault]
20843 Final goods: confidence, prudence, freedom, enjoyment and no pain, good spirits, virtue [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
22753 Happiness for the Stoics was an equable flow of life [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
20865 Happiness is the end and goal, achieved by living virtuously, in agreement, and according to nature [Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
20840 Stoics say pleasure is at most a byproduct of finding what is suitable for us [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20852 Rapture is a breakdown of virtue [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
6895 If humans are citizens of the world (not just a state) then virtue is all good human habits [Stoic school, by Mautner]
20848 An appropriate action is one that can be defended, perhaps by its consistency. [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
4012 The Stoics rejected entirely the high value that had been placed on contemplation [Stoic school, by Taylor,C]
20844 Honour is just, courageous, orderly or knowledgeable. It is praiseworthy, or functions well [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
5073 Stoics do not despise external goods, but subject them to reason, and not to desire [Taylor,R on Stoic school]
20862 Crafts like music and letters are virtuous conditions, and they accord with virtue [Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
5072 For Stoics, obligations are determined by social role [Taylor,R on Stoic school]
21396 Man is distinguished by knowing conditional truths, because impressions are connected [Stoic school, by Long]
1781 Stoics favour a mixture of democracy, monarchy and aristocracy [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
3561 Stoics originated the concept of natural law, as agreed correct reasoning [Stoic school, by Annas]
3046 Stoics say a wise man will commit suicide if he has a good enough reason [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20858 Suicide is reasonable, for one's country or friends, or because of very bad health [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
3556 Stoic 'nature' is deterministic, physical and teleological [Stoic school, by Annas]
22743 Unlike Epicurus, Stoics distinguish the Whole from the All, with the latter including the void [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
13296 The cosmos has two elements - passive matter, and active cause (or reason) which shapes it [Stoic school, by Seneca]
20827 The cosmos is regularly consumed and reorganised by the primary fire [Stoic school, by Aristocles]
7815 Early Stoics called the logos 'god', meaning not a being, but the principle of the universe [Stoic school]
6038 Stoics say god is matter, or an inseparable quality of it, or is the power within it [Stoic school, by Chalcidius]
20829 Virtuous souls endure till the end, foolish souls for a short time, animal souls not at all [Stoic school, by Eusebius]
6039 Stoics say virtuous souls last till everything ends in fire, but foolish ones fade away [Stoic school, by ]