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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

22757	Stoics say that folly alone is evil [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
	Full Idea: The Stoics say that folly alone is evil.
	From: report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Sextus Empiricus - Against the Ethicists (one book) II.90
	A reaction: This is Socrates' intellectualist view of weakness of will. Is the evil in the succumbing to a temptation, or in the intellectual error that leads to it? 'Folly' in English is stupid action, not just stupid belief.