Antisthenes of Athens by Prince Susan;

Author:Prince, Susan;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Context of Preservation

This passage comes near the end of Galen’s introduction to his topic, how to cure intellectual errors (ἁμαρτήματα) of the soul. Correction of emotional passions (πάθη) is treated in a separate, prior text. In this passage, he warns that those who claim there is no science of ethical action might be persuasive: but the view he goes on to develop is that there is a science of virtue parallel to mathematics.

Importance of the Testimonium

This is the only evidence for a dispute among the Cynics and their sympathizers over the exact nature of the shortcut. It is the clearest description of what is elided in this shortcut, namely, the Stoic science of logical theory as a tool for ethics. (Compare t. 135A.104.)

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