Musonius Rufus, Lecture 10 - Will the Philosopher Prosecute Anyone for Personal Injury?

<p>Steve and Dan discuss Lecture 10 of Musonius Rufus - Will the Philosopher Prosecute Anyone for Personal Injury? Musonius Rufus takes a firm stance that anyone worthy of the term philosopher would not sue someone for personal injury. Interestingly, personal injury seems to have been a very broad category in the time of Musonius Rufus, everything from physical assault, to insults, to hard glances. Musonius Rufus says that a philosopher would not sue for personal injury for any of these abuses. Steve and Dan disagree with Musonius and say that although they understand Musonius&#39;s argument that a Stoic philosopher would not view himself to have been truly harmed by someone else&#39;s actions, because the assailant cannot reach the moral character of the person they are assaulting. However, Steve and Dan argue that it falls within the role of a citizen (and sometimes other roles) to prevent the abuser from continuing their abusive behavior toward other citizens. It would be a failure in terms of the cultivation of Justice to idly sit by and let those actions continue. </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/MUSONIUSRUFUSSTOICFRAGMENTS/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/MUSONIUSRUFUSSTOICFRAGMENTS/mode/2up</a></p>