Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 3.22.169

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[169] The Stoics, then, assert that good is ‟utility or not other than utility,” meaning by ‟utility” virtue and right action, and by ‟not other than utility” the good man and the friend. For ‟virtue,” as consisting in a certain state of the ruling principle,¹ and ‟right action,” being an activity in accordance with virtue, are exactly ‟utility;” while the good man and the friend are ‟not other than utility.”

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism (English) (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.)

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.) — 3.22.169 focus

[169] Φᾶσίν οὖν οἱ Στωικοὶ (Stoic. fr. III 75 A) ἀγαθὸν εἶναι ὠφέλειαν ἢ οὐχ ἕτερον ὠφελείας, ὠφέλειαν
μὲν λέγοντες τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ τὴν σπουδαίαν πρᾶξιν, ¹ ξιν, οὐχ ἕτερον δὲ ὠφελείας τὸν σπουδαῖον καὶ τὸν φίλον. ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἀρετή πως ἔχον ἡγεμονικὸν καθεστηκυῖα καὶ ἡ σπουδαία πρᾶξις ἐνέργειά τις οὖσα κατ’ ἀρετὴν ἄντικρύς ἐστιν ὠφέλεια, ὁ δὲ
σπουδαῖος ἄνθρωπος καὶ ὁ φίλος οὐχ ἕτερος ὠφελείας.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Or ‟regent part,” i.e. the mind, cf. i. 128, ii. 81; Introd. p. xxv. The doctrine that ‟the good man” is ‟not other” than goodness (virtue or ‟utility”) strikes one as curious. The Stoics, we must remember, regarded attributes or qualities as corporeal and parts of the ‟substance” (οὐσία) to which they belong—here the mind (‟regent part”) of ‟the good man.” For the equation of ‟virtue” (or ‟goodness”) with ‟utility” (or ‟benefit”) as ‟the source (or agency) from which benefit results” see Diog. Laert. vii. 94. For Stoic Ethics cf. Introd. pp. xxvi ff.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.22.169

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