Éticas estoicas

This volume aims to make the ethical proposals of the ancient Stoics accessible to the contemporary reader, following the reconstruction of the founders of the Portico school developed by Arius Didymus, Diogenes Laertius and Hierocles. This compilation contains the Spanish translation, based on a critical review of the Greek text, of the three traditional expositions of Stoic ethics, composed by Arius Didymus, philosopher at the court of Emperor Augustus, in his Epitome of Stoic Ethics, probably the description more precise about the figure of the wise man and his virtues, together with the "doxographer" Diogenes Laertius, in book VII of his Lives of the Illustrious Philosophers, and Hierocles, author of a treatise entitled Elements of Ethics, where he offers a presentation of the doctrine classic of familiarity, accompanied by several examples drawn from animal behavior. The Stoics are interested not only in moral theory, but also fundamentally in moral practice. In their ethics they affirm that the ultimate goal of human life is to "live in accordance with nature", that is, to live a virtuous life by doing nothing against nature and living a life in harmony with the universe. For the Stoics, the virtues and the parts of philosophy are reciprocally implicated, since virtue is both a knowledge and a disposition. It is up to each of us to carry out our "due act", which consists of what reason prescribes, and from due acts arises the coherence of the principles of action.