human fellowship
“cosmopolitanism”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
fellowship of human conjunction · sociability · the affection of the human race · we are members of a great body
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The natural sociability of humankind, expanding concentrically from family to the whole human race, grounding justice and related virtues.
and in turn justice, as it pours itself out into the other virtues, so it will seek them.
But in every honourable thing of which we speak, there is nothing so illustrious nor of wider reach than the conjunction of men among men, and, as it were, a certain fellowship and sharing of advantages, and the very affection of the human race.
Since, then, there is in every virtue a certain care, as it were, looking outward and seeking and embracing others, it comes about that friends, brothers, kinsmen, connexions, fellow citizens, and finally all men — since we would have there to be one fellowship of men — are to be sought for their own sake.
Letters to Lucilius
The Stoic doctrine that all humans are united as members of one body and owe mutual aid to one another.
we are members of a great body.
Our fellowship is most like an arch of stones, which would fall were they not to lean against each other, and by this very thing is held up.