Philosophy and education in Stoicism of the Roman Imperial era

The Stoics of the Roman Imperial period share the imperative that education should not focus on erudition for its own sake, but contribute to the pursuit of the good life as they define it in philosophical terms. Hence these later Stoics express similar concerns about the technical and theoretical aspects of philosophy as they do about pre‐philosophical education. Such a stance, however, does not imply ignorance or a deliberate rejection of the technical knowledge established by earlier Stoics, but rather a conscious choice of a certain mode of discourse, which cannot be reduced to popular moralising.

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