Is the sage ever mentioned during a Stoic's elevator pitch?
My first thought is that it does not influence any other ideas; it shows you when your other ideas are absurd.
Fixing a broken sage is possibly easier than rebuilding Stoic ethics from the ground up.
The sage is a hypothetical Stoic that gets everything right. Let's list all the attributes that come to mind.
The sage:
- is perfectly virtuous
- has no vices
- experiences no passions (except eupatheia)
- is indifferent to externals
- has no opinions
- does not necessarily know everything but does not give assent to any incorrect impressions
Certainty is impossible and the Sage certainly knows this.
Is there anything in the sage's attributes that I feel needs to be preserved? The "perfections" must all be thrown out.
Is the prokopton the new sage?
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