Sublime

For logical relations were held to be relations among contents (the sayables) as abstracted from their material hosts.

Journal,

Handbook

If there is any value in the arcane reconstructions of the ancient school for the modern thinker intrigued by Stoicism, it lies in this grand, integrative vision of a good human life, guided by the relentless and unsentimental use of reason in a quest for the best available understanding of the orderly world around us.

Discourse on Method.

when the Roman republic was looked to as a source of political ideas Seneca and his Stoicism took on exceptional interest.

beauty, consistency, and orderliness are even more worth preserving in the domain of deliberation and action,

The ability to give or withhold assent to an impression is the fundamental power that our rationality gives us for dealing with the outside world;