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

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's argument that a Stoic philosopher would not view himself to have been truly harmed by someone else'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. https://archive.org/details/MUSONIUSRUFUSSTOICFRAGMENTS/mode/2up