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Today's episode will be an interview about the development of stoicism

with David Sedley,

Lawrence Professor of Ancient Philosophy and a fellow of Christ

College at the University of Cambridge.

Hi David, thanks for coming on.

Hi Peter, glad to be here.

Well we're going to be talking about Stoicism now, and this is obviously one of the schools of Hellenistic philosophy,

which I've been covering in the podcast.

One of the striking things about Hellenistic philosophy is that it develops into several different schools, Epicureanism, skepticism, Stoicism.

But in the case of Stoicism, it seems that they differ from each other, so there's disagreement

within the school,

at least in terms of emphasis and to some extent

in terms of doctrine.

So what actually allows us to say

that this is a single school as opposed

to just a bunch of different people who we retrospectively

call Stoics.

Right, well that's actually quite a complex question because there's certain features which

we think of as characteristic of the Stoics which they in fact share with all the schools in their own day.

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