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23305 | Stoics said responsibility depends on rationality [Stoic school, by Sorabji] |
Full Idea: It is the Stoics who made responsibility depend on rationality. | |
From: report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Richard Sorabji - Rationality 'Ethical' | |
A reaction: Aristotle's account of responsibility in 'Ethics' needs a high degree of rationality, far beyond even a rational non-human animal. And no one thinks small children are responsible. |