When Stoicism began it was, like Epicureanism, a complete philosophical system that incorporated many theoretical elements including metaphysics, cosmology, and logic. But as Stoicism rose in popularity in Rome during the transition from Republic to Empire it was the practical ethics that became prominent and important. Stoic ethics does have a grounding in a metaphysical rationality, but that needn’t concern us at this point and can be understood without it.
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