Stoicism — Zeno of Kition · Further reading
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Further reading
- Stoicism — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — the best single scholarly overview, with the source problems handled honestly.
- Epictetus — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — on prohairesis and what is "up to us".
- Ancient Ethical Theory — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — situates the Stoic telos against Plato and Aristotle.
- Cosmopolitanism — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — traces the line from Zeno's Republic forward.
- Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book VII (Wikisource) — the biography of Zeno and the doxography of the whole school, in the Hicks translation.
- Epictetus, Enchiridion (Perseus Digital Library) — the Higginson translation; chapter 1 is the dichotomy of control.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (MIT Internet Classics Archive) — the Long translation.
- Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (Perseus Digital Library) — Book III is the fullest ancient exposition of Stoic ethics that survives whole, including indifferents and oikeiosis.