... Movement Origen Action theory Assent Brennan T Impulse Seneca Meinwald C Opinion Appropriate action Duty Kant I Soul Eulogon the well‐reasoned Justification Donini P L Happiness Indifferents Barney R Sedley D Benefit Oikeiôsis Epictetus Cognition Consistency Hierocles Freedom...

...0 24 04 2025 Chapter 7 turns to the Stoics and argues for two claims that cut against traditional scholarship. The first is that the Stoic category of “intermediate appropriate action” is an important category that covers actions that are not required by virtue but that pursue promoted value...

... they most likely are: examples that the Stoics put forward when explaining the revisionary implications of their theory of value and appropriate action, rather than general recommendations, rules, or an account of life in a city of sages. Anthropophagy God Incest Nature Reason Stoics City Goulet‐Cazé...

..., but not a moral one. Cicero Panaetius Dyck Andrew Stobaeus Aristotle Seneca Plato Socrates Antipater of Tarsus Carneades Cato Diogenes of Babylon Chrysippus Hume David Irwin Terence Diogenes Laertius Zeno of Citium Hobbes Thomas Stoic ethics appropriate action decorum beauty virtue...

...The chapter traces the development of the notion of the kathêkon—frequently translated as “duty” or “appropriate action” —from the early phase of the Stoa down to the Roman period. The first section (§1) focuses on the definition of the kathêkon handed down to us...

... to know what counts as appropriate action (καθῆκον). The Stoics defined appropriate action as ‘an action that has a reasonable justification’ (DL VII 107; cp. Cicero, Off. 1.8 and Fin. 3.58). A reasonable justification should consist in 153 showing...