Opinion
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
opinion · a certain effeminate and trifling opinion · doxa
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
A cognitive state concerned with truth and falsehood about any matter, including the eternal, distinguished from choice which is about good and bad within our power.
we do not exactly form an opinion to take or avoid a thing.
Probably therefore nobody actually identifies choice with opinion in general.
Nor do the same persons appear to excel both at choosing and at forming opinions:
Tusculan Disputations
The idea that the perceived severity of pain, and much of what is called evil in it, arises from belief and judgement rather than from nature itself.
Do you see, then, that the evil is of opinion, not of nature?
For there is a certain effeminate and trifling opinion — no more in pain than the same in pleasure — by which, when we melt and flow away in softness, we cannot bear the sting of a bee without an outcry.
Meditations
The Stoic concept that judgments, not external events, are the true source of disturbance, and that opinion lies within one's control.
that all is opinion.
and that all is opinion;
Cast out the opinion, and you are saved.