mentioned are the criteria for what a stoic is, or more importantly the characteristics of a stoic
- the "Sufficiency Thesis": virtue is the only good
- the "Indifferents Thesis": externals do not affect human happiness
- the "Herculean Thesis": a life with hardship is preferable to an easy life
- the "Rationality Thesis": one should attempt to remove (not moderate) the "wrong sort of emotional activity"
- the "Oikeiotic Thesis": virtue entails realizing (both in the senses of understanding and becoming) ones place in the universe as a whole, and helping other to do the same
and further
- a cluster of doctrines traceable to the central elements of classical Stoicism
- eudaimonistic: happiness, flourishing, and excellence all entail each other
- intellectualistic: virtue and reason are identical
- naturalistic: "facts about the natural world" are the "substance of practical deliberation"
- a "profound formal unity of the virtues"
- an emphasis on the "full particularity" of each individual, and each persons role on the "grand system of nature."
- an emphasis on self-mastery
