Colloquium 1

Abstract

The Stoics say that there are many virtues, although each virtue entails all the others; sometimes they give lists of what these virtues are, or rather of the generic virtues that include all specific virtuous disposi- tions. Sometimes they give the conventional list, "prudence, temper- ance, courage, justice" (Stobaeus II, 60 Wachsmuth-Hense); but two sources (Diogenes Laertius VII, 92 and the prologue to the pseudo- Plutarchan Placita) say the Stoics think there are three virtues, logic, physics, and ethics; and Cicero De Finibus III, 72-3 confirms that the Stoics list dialectic and physics as virtues, alongside the familiar moral