CHAPTER X.

ETHICS: 1. THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE STOIC ETHICS. ABSTRACT THEORY OF MORALITY.

A. The Highest Good 225 1. Nature of the Highest Good 225 2. The Good and Evil 230 3. Pleasure and the Good 235 4. Negative character of Happiness 239 5. The Highest Good as Law 240 B. Emotions and Virtue 243 1. The Emotions—their nature—varieties of 243 2. Idea of Virtue—positive and negative aspects of—the virtues severally—their mutual relations—unity of virtue 254 C. The Wise Man 268 1. Wisdom and Folly 268 2. Universal Depravity 272 3. Conversion 275