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On Impulse, or On Human Nature
Περὶ ὁρμῆς ἢ περὶ ἀνθρώπου φύσεως
In this treatise, according to Diogenes Laertius (VII 87), Zeno was the first to designate as the end of life "living in agreement with nature", which amounts to living according to virtue, since nature leads us to it. The double title indicates that the work studied impulse (horme), the tendency that moves animals and that in man should be governed by reason. Other sources (Stobaeus) credit Zeno with the short formula "living in agreement" and Cleanthes with the addition "with nature"; the contradiction between the two testimonies is still debated.
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Authorship note
A lost work, cited in Diogenes Laertius' list (VII 4) and as a doctrinal source at VII 87. Only testimonies survive.
Editions and translations
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English
The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Hackett Publishing, 2008
Translation: Brad Inwood y Lloyd P. Gerson
ISBN 9780872209534
Selección de testimonios sobre Zenón y los estoicos antiguos.
Zeno of Citium
The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes
The Conscious LibraryThe Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes
C. J. Clay (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1891
Translation: A. C. Pearson
Texto griego y latino con introducción y notas en inglés; dominio público.
Griego antiguo
Zeno of Citium
Stoicorum veterum fragmenta, vol. I: Zeno et Zenonis discipuli (ed. Hans von Arnim)
The Conscious LibraryStoicorum veterum fragmenta, vol. I: Zeno et Zenonis discipuli (ed. Hans von Arnim)
Teubner (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1905
Edición de referencia de los fragmentos (SVF I 1–332 para Zenón); dominio público.
Español
Los estoicos antiguos
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 230), 1996
Translation: Ángel J. Cappelletti
ISBN 9788424918439
Fragmentos y testimonios de Zenón, Aristón, Apolófanes, Herilo, Dionisio de Heraclea, Perseo, Cleantes y Esfero, según la edición de von Arnim.
Other works by Zeno of Citium
- Republic (Politeia) · 310
- Fragments and testimonies · 1905
- On Life according to Nature
- On the Passions
- On the Appropriate (Duty)
- On Law
- On Greek Education
- On Vision
- On the Whole (the Universe)
- On Signs
- Pythagorean Questions
- Universals (General Questions)
- On Diction
- Homeric Problems (5 books)
- On Listening to Poetry
- Art (Handbook of Rhetoric)
- Solutions
- Refutations (2 books)
- Memoirs of Crates
- Ethics
- On Reason (Discourse)
- On Substance
- On the Soul
- Art of Love
- Diatribes (Interludes)
- Chreiai (Anecdotes)
- Letter to King Antigonus · 276
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro VII, 1–160 (Zenón y la doctrina estoica), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library 185, 1925 (Wikisource en inglés); texto griego en Wikisource griega; trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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