Aristotle and the Stoics (Supplementary volume) by F.H. Sandbach

In this essay I examine the widely-held view that Stoicism, being su sequent to Aristotle, must be explained as a development from Aristotelianism. I hope that I have shown this to be insecurely founded at the least. Paucity of information about the philosophers of the late fourth and early third centuries often makes it impossible to speak with certainty, but the evidence that we have seems to indicate that in general the Stoics neither read, nor learned the contents of, the works contained in our Corpus Aristotelicum. Some leading scholars have remarked upon the apparent neglect of these works after the time ofTheophrastus: lngemar DUring, Paul Moraux, and Fritz Wehrli spring to mind. It will appear that even before that man's death they did not attract the attention of the Stoics.

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