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Work #1817

Lectures and Sayings

Gaius Musonius Rufus
c. 60–100 CE (lectures delivered); excerpts preserved 5th c. CE · Greek
Diatribes (lecture-discourses) and aphoristic excerpts · Roman Stoicism

The Roman Socrates on practical ethics — women deserve philosophy, food should be simple, exile is no evil, and virtue is practised, not theorised

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Attribute Lectures and Sayings
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature not engaged
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Partial
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Cosmic-ordering
Observer · Moral Authority Reason
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Non-conserved
Information · Granularity not engaged

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Lectures and Sayings

Standard Stoic cosmology presupposed; focus is on practical ethics within the temporal order.

Space

Lectures and Sayings

Stoic corporeal cosmos; exile demonstrates that space is morally indifferent.

Matter

Lectures and Sayings

The body is real, morally relevant, and must be trained alongside the soul.

Observer

Lectures and Sayings

The embodied rational agent who learns virtue through practice; cosmic logos governs all.

Energy

Lectures and Sayings

Stoic pneuma-physics presupposed; no independent energy doctrine.

Information

Lectures and Sayings

The logos as cosmic rational structure; personal identity not conserved beyond death.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Lectures and Sayings

The tension between Musonius's advocacy of women's education and his conservative views on marriage and sexual propriety; the tension between vegetarianism and mainstream Stoic acceptance of animal use.