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Single Idea 20865

[from 'fragments/reports' by Stoic school, in 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness ]

Full Idea

Stoics say that being happy is the goal for the sake of which everything else is done, for the sake of nothing else; and this consists in living according to virtue, in living in agreement, and (which is the same thing) in living according to nature.

Gist of Idea

Happiness is the end and goal, achieved by living virtuously, in agreement, and according to nature

Source

report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by John Stobaeus - Anthology 2.06e

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.133


A Reaction

The best summary I have found of the main stoic goal. Stoics are eudaimonists. The full stoic story must explain how virtue, agreement and nature fit together into a coherent whole.

Related Idea

Idea 20863 The goal is to 'live in agreement', according to one rational consistent principle [Zeno of Citium, by Stobaeus]