STOIC POLITEIA REVISITED
STOIC POLITEIA REVISITED

Summary/Abstract: This article addresses a specific aspect of the political theory of the early Stoics: that of the criticism, or rather the authentic rejection, that the Republics of Zeno and Chrysippus direct to the Platonic conception of the ideal city. To this end, I will discuss a key passage from a skeptic of uncertain date called Cassius, transmitted by Diogenes Laertius (7, 32-33), where the question of the Zenonian Republic is posed sequentially from cynical assumptions in six capital points. The Stoic Politeia does not really intend to replace the cities existing in its days, but to build a universal and egalitarian republic compatible with the community of wise men.

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