person
Aristo of Chios
Aristo
also: Aristonis, Aristo, Chius
Stoic philosopher who held all things between virtue and vice to be wholly indifferent; Cicero treats his harsh, refuted sect as the limiting case of Stoic ethics.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §3.50 as it is by Aristo
Aristo of Chios, an early heterodox Stoic who held that all things between virtue and vice are strictly indifferent, with no preference among them. Cato rejects this as collapsing all selection and abolishing any function for wisdom.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §4.40 the faults and errors of Aristo
Aristo of Chios, a heterodox Stoic, held that all things between virtue and vice are absolutely indifferent, with no preferred or rejected among them. Cicero treats his view as the dead end the orthodox Stoics fall into when they neglect natural things.