# Critique of Stoicism

- Id: `critique_of_stoicism`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/critique-of-stoicism/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `a487e33c520afc339eb17a55a3927e82287c236529663dfcdf5c7874fc2eb321`

## Summary

Critique of Stoicism examines the coherence of its physical, logical, and ethical claims; in an opponent such as Plutarch, it remains a polemical presentation requiring control.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 114 passages across 11 works, including Ancient testimonia on Carneades, Academica, On the Nature of the Gods. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:carneades.ancient_testimonia:cicero-tusculan_disputations-5.84",
    "passage:sextus_empiricus.outlines:3",
    "passage:zeno.pearson_fragments:scan-124"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "contradictions des stoïciens",
    "contradictions of the stoics",
    "contre les stoïciens",
    "against the stoics"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 11,
    "passages": 114,
    "thinkers": 6,
    "traditions": 4
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
        "author": "Carneades",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/carneades/ancient-testimonia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.academica",
        "title": "Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/academica/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_natura_deorum",
        "title": "On the Nature of the Gods",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-natura-deorum/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.common_conceptions_against_stoics",
        "title": "On Common Conceptions against the Stoics",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/common-conceptions-against-stoics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.stoic_self_contradictions",
        "title": "On Stoic Self-Contradictions",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/stoic-self-contradictions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.stoics_more_absurd_than_poets",
        "title": "The Stoics Speak More Absurdly than the Poets",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/stoics-more-absurd-than-poets/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
        "title": "Outlines of Pyrrhonism",
        "author": "Sextus Empiricus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/outlines/"
    },
    {
        "id": "zeno.pearson_fragments",
        "title": "The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes: Zeno Section, Edited by A. C. Pearson",
        "author": "Zeno of Citium",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/zeno/pearson-fragments/"
    }
]
```