Chapter 2 Rules Are for Fools
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This chapter addresses the debate in the scholarship about whether kathêkonta are akin to rules of conduct or not. While the standard assumption for centuries has been that kathêkonta function like rules, recent scholarship has offered a “no-rules” interpretation of Stoic ethics. This chapter offers a new argument for why the Stoic system actually precludes the possibility of there being any fixed rules of conduct whatsoever. It also attempts to reconstruct the original classification scheme that the Stoics developed for classifying different types of duties.