On the identity of living according to nature and living in accordance with the logos (Marcus
Aurelius
VII, I I), c Stoi'ciens, p.
Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
9. Cf Cicero, On the Limits Goods and Evils, III, 2I, 72-73.
ro. Plutarch, On Stoic Se -Contradictions, 9, ro35a = SVF, vol. II, no. 42 =
Stoiciens, pp. 96-97.
326 Notes to Pages 8l-99
l I . S VF I I , n o . 4 1 = D i o g e n e s L a e r t i u s , V I I , 4 0 , 9 - 1 0 .
12. SVF II, 38 = Posidonius ap. Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos, VII, 19, l-2 = Against the Logicians, I, 19, vol. II, p. I O Bury.
13. S II, 53 = Chrysippus ap. Plutarch, On Stoic Se Contradictions, IX, 1035e2-4.
14. Diogenes Laertius, VII, 4I. See also ibid. , 39, where mention is made of philosophical doctrine, and not ofphilosophy. Cf P. Hadot, "Philosophie, discours philosophique et divisions de la philosophie chez les sto! ciens, " Revue inte ation ale dephilosophie (1991), pp. 205-219.
l5. See Plutarch, On Stoic Se -Contradictions, 9, 1035a
1 6 . Emile Brehier, in his " Pre ce " to A. Virieux-Reymond, logique et l'epistemologie des Stoi iens (Chambery, n. d. ), p. v.
17. A. Bonho er, Die Ethik des Stoikers Epictet (Stuttgart, 1894; reprinted 1968), pp. iii-iv; Bonho er, Epictet und die Stoa (Stuttgart, 1890; reprinted 1968), p. v.
18. Epictetus, Discourses, II, 17, 40; II, 19, 9; III, 2, 13-16; 21, 7.
19. Epictetus, Manual, I, I.
20. [Throughout, the term which Pierre Hadot has rendered in French as
"domaine" or " rme" is the Greek word topos. Topos literally means "place," but the ancient rhetorico-philosophical discipline of topics (one thinks of the works entitled "Topics" by Aristotle and Cicero) has been excellently de ned as llows by the Swiss philosopher A. -J. Voelke: "A discipline which permits the orator to nd what it is appropriate to say, in accordance with the situation in which he nds himsel and the goal he has set himself In particular, topics provided a repertoire ofpoints ofview, or places, susceptible ofproviding a basis r a variety of rms ofarguments. " La Philosophie comme therapie de l'ame: Etudes dephilosophie antique (Fribourg, Suisse/Paris, 1993), p. 2. -Trans. ]
2I. Plato, Republic, IV, 436b
22. Plutarch, On Moral rtue, III, 441 C-D.
23 . See Epictetus, Discourses, I, 4, 12; III, 2, I .
24. Stoi iens, p . 3 0 (§39) [= Diogenes Laertius VII, 40, vol. II, p . l 50 Hicks
-Trans. ].
25. Cf H. Throm, Die Thesis (Paderbom, 1932), pp. 88, II8; P. Hadot,
"Philosophie, dialectique, rhetorique ans l'Antiquite," Studia philosophica, 39 (1980): 147·
26. A. -J. Voelke, L'Idee de volonte dans le stoidsme (Paris, 1973), p. 97.
27. This point, I believe, should su ce to re te the objections set rth by D. Pesce, in his II Platone di Tubinga (Brescia, 1990), pp. 55
28. SVF, vol. III, §68 [= Plutarch, On Stoic Se -Contradictions, 9, 1035c - Trans. ].
29. On these types ofreasoning, see Stoi'ciens, pp. 1339-1340, notes to p. 824.
30. A er a general introduction (chapter l), the reader proceeds to the disci pline ofdesire (chapters 2-29); the discipline ofaction (chapters 30-5l); and the
Notes to Pages 99-125 327
discipline ofassent (which is o y mentioned in passing; see chapter 52). The Manual then concludes with a series ofsayings which must always be kept "at hand" (chapter 53); cf. M. Pohlenz, Die Stoa, vol. 2 (Gottingen, 1955), p. 162.
3I. On these attempts, c P. Hadot, Exercices spirituels, pp. 150-153. 6 . The Inner Citadel, o r the Discipline Assent
I . Stoidens, p. 32 (§49) [= Diogenes Laertius, Lives ofthe Eminent Philosophers, VII, 49. C the translation of Long and Sedley vol. I, §33D, p. 196; §39A, pp. 236-237 -Trans. ].
2. Ibid. , p. 33 (§51 ) [= Diogenes Laertius VII, 51 c Long and Sedley vol. I, §39A, pp. 236-237; §4oP; Q, p. 248; 39D, p. 238; 40A, pp. 241-2; etc. -Trans. ].
3. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, XIX, I, 15-20.
4. Sto ciens, p. 489 (= Cicero, On Fate, XIX, §43).
5. SVF II, 98 (= Sextus Empiricus, Against the Logicians, II (= Adversus
Mathematicos, VIII), §397, vol. II, pp. 446-447 Bury [Loeb Classical Library]).
6. Plutarch, On Mo l rtue, 3, 441c.
7. SVF II, 846 (= Damascius, Commenta on the Phaedo, §276, p. 167
Westerink) .
8. Goldschmidt, Systeme sto ien, pp. 120-12r .
9. I base this translation ofoupantos on the versions ofsuch previous transla
tors as A. Politian, W. A. Old ther, M. Meunier, and W. Capelle.
IO. Sextus Empiricus, Adversus Mathematicos, VII, 234, 2 - 2 3 5 , 4 = Against the
Logicians, I, vol. II, §§234-235, p. 126 Bury (LCL). II. Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 78, §14.
12. Seneca, On the Constancy ofthe Sage, X, 4. I3. Seneca, OnAnger, II, 4, 1£
14. Ibid. , I, I6, 7.
1 5 . Empedocles frr. 27-28 Diels-Kranz; Horace, Satires II, 7, 86.
16. Stoidens, p. 44 (§88) = SVFvol. Ill, §4 [= Diogenes Laertius, Lives, VII, 88
-Trans. ].
17. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, X, 7, u77b26.
18. Paul Claudel, Vers d'exil ["Verses om Exile"], VII. 19. Plotinus, Enneads, I, I, 13, 7.
20. Pascal, Pensees, §460, p. 544 Brunschvicg.
2r. Ibid. , §793, p. 695.
22. S Ill, §171 = Stoidens, p. 133 ad nem [=John Stobaeus, Eclogae, II, 88,
1 Wachsmuth; C Long and Sedley 33 I, vol I p. 197 (translation); vol. II p. 200 (Greek text, commentary, and rther literature) -Trans. ]. C Voelke, L' ee de volonte, pp. 50-55.
23. S III, §265 = Stoidens, p. 45, §92 [= Diogenes Laertius, Lives, VII, 92-93 -Trans. ].
328 Notes to Pages I26-I41
24. R. Schaerer, La Question platonicienne (Paris-Neuchatel, 1969), p. IOO.
25. E. Brehier, "Pre ce" to A. Virieux-Reymond, Logique et l'epistemologie des Stoi iens, Chambery, p. v.
7. TheDisciplineofDesire, orAmorFati
1. C Voelke, L'Idee de volonte, pp. I3I-I33.
2. Stoi iens, p. 44, §§87-89 = S III, 4 [= Diogenes Laertius, Lives, VII, 87-89 -Trans. ] .
3 .
On the identity of living according to nature and living in accordance with the logos (Marcus Aurelius VII, I I), c Stoi'ciens, p. 44, §86 = S III, I78 [= D. L. , Lives, VII, 85-86 -Trans. ].
4. Anatole France, Livre de mon ami, XI, in Oeuvres, vol. I (Paris, La Pleiade), p. 5I5.
5. S vol. II, 509 [=Johannes Stobaeus, Eclogae, I, 8, 40, p. I06, 5 ed. Wachsmuth = Arius Didymus, Epitome, Fr. Phys. 26, ed. H. Diels (Doxographi Graeci, Berlin, I879, pp. 46I ) = Long and Sedley 5IB, trans. vol. I, p. 304; Greek text and commentary vol. II, pp. 30I-302 -Trans. ]. On this problem atic, c ]. -]. Duhot, Conception stoi ienne de la causalite (Paris, I989), pp. 95-
IOO.
6. H. Bergson, La Pensee et le Mouvant (Paris, I934), pp. I68-I69.
7. Cf. Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Categories, p. 407, 3 Kalb eisch:
" r them, the ture is determined. "
8. This interpretation of Stoic ideas about the present, the past, and the
ture is based on that of Emile Brehier, Theorie des inco orels dans l'ancien stoi isme (Paris, I9623), pp. 58-59.
9. Goldschmidt, Systeme stoi ien, p. I95·
IO. Pace E. R. Dodds, Pagans and Christians in an Age ofAnxiety (New York,
I970), p. 9, and Rist, in Meyer and Sanders, eds. ,Jewish and Christian Se -Def i tion, pp. 38-39.
I I . Homer, Iliad, XX, I27; XXIV, 209, 525; Odyssey, VII, I97-
I2. C Pierre Boyance, "Remarques sur le Papyrus de Derveni," Revue des Etudes Grecques, 87 (I974): 95.
I3. Plato, Republic, 6I7b
I4. SVF II, 9I3 [= Stobaeus, Eclogae, I, 79, I Wachsmuth -Trans. ].
I5. SVF II, 9I4 [= Diogenianus in Eusebius, Evangelical Preparation, VI, 8, 9,
I-IO, 5 Mras. -Trans. ].
I 6. Good accounts ofthis theory are contained in E. Brehier, Ch sippe (Paris,
I95I), pp. II4-I27; S. Sambursky, The Physi of the Stoics (London, I959), pp. II-I7. C Stoi iens, pp. I67-I69 (= Plutarch, On Common Notions, 37, I077-I078).
I7. Stoi iens, p. I69 [= Plutarch, On Common Notions I078D-E -Trans. ]. I8. Hubert Reeves, Patience dans l'azur (Paris, I988), p. 259.
Notes to Pages 141-152 329
19. Francis Thompson, The Mistress sion (Ayles rd: St. Albert's Press, 1966).
20. Euripides, . 898, in A. Nauck, ed. , Tragicorum Graecorum agmenta (Leipzig: Teubner, 1889; repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1964).
2 I . Nietzsche, E e homo. y I am so Intell ent, I O [= Friedrich Nietzsche: S mtliche Werke, Kritische Studienausgabe herausgegeben von Giorgio Colli und Mazzino Montinari (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1988), vol. 6, p. 297, 24-29; cf Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy Morals and Ecce Homo, ed. and trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), p. 258 - Trans. ].
22. Nietzsche, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, Epilogue, I [= vol. 6, p. 436, 1 5-19 Colli/Montinari; c The Portable Nietzsche, selected and translated by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Viking Press, 1954), p. 680 -Trans. ].
23. Nietzsche, Posthumous Fragments, late 1886-Spring 1887, 7 (38) [= vol. 12, pp. 307-308 Colli/Montinari; c Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, edited by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1968), pp. 532-533 (no. ro32) -Trans. ].
24. Nietzsche, Posthumous Fragments, Spring-Summer 1888, 16 (32) [= vol. 13, p. 492, 3l-493, 7 Colli/Montinari; cf Kaufmann/Hollingdale, pp. 536-537
(no. ro41) -Trans. ].
25. William Blake, "Auguries oflnnocence," in G. Keynes, ed. , Blake, Com-
plete Writings (London, 1966), p. 43I.
26. Seneca, On Bene ts, VII, 3 .
27. Stoi iens, p. 140 (= Plutarch, On Common Notions, VIII, ro62a).
28. Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 74, 27.
29. On these notions, see P. Hadot, "Only the Present," in Philosophy as a
Way ofL e, pp. 63-75.
30. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 6. 43l I.
3 I. Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, l6, 4.
32. This has been the view ofscholars om Renan toJ. M. Rist (in Meyer
and Sanders, eds. ,Jewish and Christian Se -De nition, p. 29).
3 3 . Here I am llowing the text of Theiler.
34. Aristotle, Protrepticus, . 2, pp. 27-28 in W. D. Ross, ed. , Aristotelis F g
menta Selecta (Ox rd, 1955).
35. Seneca,LetterstoLucilius, 16,4. Inthispassage,wecanrecognizeseveralof
Marcus Aurelius' hypotheses: an impersonal providence (= hypothesis 4 in our diagram); a personal providence (= hypothesis 5); and chance (= hypothesis l). On these various hypotheses, c W. Theiler, "Tacitus und die antike Schicksal slehre,"inPhylloboliaf rPetervonderMiihll(Basel, 1945), pp. 35-90 [reprintedin Theiler's Forschungen zum Neuplatonismus (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1966) - Trans. ].
36. C M. Frede, Die Stoische Logik (Gottingen, 1974), pp. 98-roo; Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, XVI, 8, 14.
3 30 Notes to Pages l 53-171
37. Chrysippus,inAulusGellius,AtticNights,VII,l, 7-13.
38. Cicero, On the Nature ofthe Gods, III, 35, 86. See also II, 66, 167: the gods are concerned about great things, and neglect the minor ones. Cf Philo of Alexandria, On Providence, II, § r o2 : the cataclysms brought about by the natural trans rmation ofthe elements are only accidental consequences of ndamental natural processes.
39. Cf Marcus Aurelius' use ofthe word toioutos in Meditations, V, 8, 4, where the cosmos is described as "such-and-such" a body, and destiny as "such-and such" a cause. See also IV, 33, 3.
40. Pascal, Pensees, §77, trans. W. F. Trotter (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958), no. 77, p. 23.
4r. [The word translated here as "reasons" is the Greek logos, which has a wide variety ofmeanings, including " rmula," "de nition," "proposition," and "account," to name but a w. -Trans. ]
42. Stoidens, p. 59 (§§135-136); SVF vol. II, §ro27 [= Diogenes Laertius, Lives, VII, 135-136; cf Long and Sedley no. 46B, vol. I, p. 275 (translation); vol. II, p. 272 (Greek text and commentary) -Trans. ] .
43 . Seneca, Natural Questions, I, Pre ce, 3 .
44. Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus, translation by A. -J. Festugiere, La Revelation d'Hermes Trismegiste, vol. 2 (Paris, 1949), p. 313; see also Stoidens, p.
