Herillus: Anti-Stoic

¹ Herillus was:

• a native of Carthage

He said that:

• the chief good was knowledge
• we should live according to knowledge, and not be misled by ignorance
• that knowledge was a habit not departing from reason in the reception of perceptions
• there was no such thing as a chief good
• circumstances and events changed the good, just as the same piece of brass might become a statue either of Alexander or of Socrates
• the chief good or end (τέλος]), there was a subordinate end (ὑποτελίς) different from it
• those who were not wise aimed at the latter
• only the wise man directed his views to the former
• all the things between virtue and vice were indifferent

² His books contain a few lines. But they are full of power, and contain arguments in opposition to Zeno.

³ When he was a boy, many people were attached to him.

Zeno wished to drive them away, he persuaded him to have his head shaved, which disgusted them all.

⁴ His books are:

• 1 on Exercise
• 1 on the Passions
• 1 on Opinion
• the Lawgiver
• the Skilful Midwife
• the Contradictory Teacher
• the Preparer
• the Director
• the Mercury
• the Medea
• a book of Dialogues
• a book of Ethical Propositions