Stoicism and the virtue of toleration

• Autores: John Lombardini
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 36, Nº 4, 2015, págs. 643-669
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article argues that the Stoics possessed a conception of toleration as a personal and social virtue. In contrast with previous scholarship, I argue that such a conception of toleration only emerges as a product of the novel conceptions of the virtue of endurance offered by Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The first section provides a survey of the Stoic conception of endurance in order to demonstrate how the distinctive treatments of endurance in Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius merit classification of a> conception of toleration; the second section offers a brief reconstruction of the arguments for toleration in the Meditations.