person
Ariston of Chios
Ariston
also: Ariston
Stoic philosopher (3rd c. BC), pupil of Zeno, who rejected physics and logic and reduced philosophy to ethics --- even paring away the part that gives precepts; Seneca disputes him here.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.89.13 Ariston of Chios
Stoic pupil of Zeno who reduced philosophy to ethics, rejecting physics and logic and even the giving of precepts; Seneca answers that the sage is precisely 'the tutor of the human race.'