The Relation of Stoical Ethics with Naturalistic Views

The Stoic have taken advantage of philosophy, logics and physics to explain the principles and doctrines of their ethics. They consider ethics as a practical science and use “empirical matters”, “cause and effect” methods between phenomena to prove their fundamental method. It is one of the reasons which show that, the Stoic consider natural laws to show their moral matters. Such as the other schools like Plato and Aristotle Metaphysics, the Stoic pay attention to the ethical problems as, good, bad, virtue, and meanness to demonstrate their principles of ethical philosophy. However, they explain their matter by general natural law. They justified these problems according to the nature law. By fundamental principles they concluded that, adaptation to nature is positive and, opposition to these laws has negative values.The nature of everything is in that it follows the behavioral patterns and structures which the nature of universe or its Creator has situated in their nature. Since they believed that everything occurs according to the nature, and governed by cause and effect principles, things must act based on and in accordance with the nature.The Stoic’s universal views affected their ethics dramatically. In fact, they have used philosophy, naturalist philosophy, and epistemology’s discussion for their ethical principle stability since they justify their main ethical principles and even their epistemology according to the external cosmos. The research method is analytic, descriptive, and explanatory; and the Stoic's fundamentals of ethics have been explained based on their views on man, universe, nature, and God.