{"_meta":{"name":"SageReasoning Stoic Brain","version":"1.0.0","description":"A machine-readable encoding of Stoic philosophy for virtue-based reasoning and decision scoring. AI agents can adopt this as their ethical reasoning layer.","website":"https://www.sagereasoning.com","documentation":"https://www.sagereasoning.com/api-docs","discovery":"https://www.sagereasoning.com/llms.txt","github":"https://github.com/quartermileclint/stoic-brain","endpoints":{"stoic_brain":"GET https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/stoic-brain","score_action":"POST https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/score","agent_baseline":"GET https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/baseline/agent (returns 4 ethical scenarios) | POST (submit responses for scoring)","score_document":"POST https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/score-document (score any text against Stoic virtues, returns badge URL)","badge":"GET https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/badge/{id} (returns SVG badge for a scored document)","guardrail":"POST https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/guardrail (virtue-gate: check an action before executing) | GET (usage docs)","score_decision":"POST https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/score-decision (compare 2-5 options against Stoic virtues)","score_conversation":"POST https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/score-conversation (audit a conversation or email thread)","reflect":"POST https://www.sagereasoning.com/api/reflect (daily reflection journal with sage perspective)"},"usage_for_ai_agents":["Fetch this endpoint to load the full Stoic virtue taxonomy and scoring rules","Use virtue weights (Wisdom 30%, Justice 25%, Courage 25%, Temperance 20%) as your decision-making layer","Take the agent baseline assessment: GET /api/baseline/agent for scenarios, POST responses to receive your Stoic score","Score candidate actions before executing: POST /api/score with { action, context, intendedOutcome }","Aim for \"progressing\" or \"sage\" alignment tiers in your decisions","Treat preferred indifferents as legitimate goals, but never at the expense of virtue"],"core_principle":"An action is virtuous to the degree it expresses Wisdom, Justice, Courage, and Temperance simultaneously — judged by intention and reasoning, not outcome alone. The goal is flourishing (eudaimonia) for the agent and all those affected.","primary_sources":["Derived from foundational texts of Stoic philosophy across multiple historical periods."]},"meta":{"name":"SageReasoning Stoic Brain","version":"3.0.0","description":"Source-driven Stoic philosophy reference and scoring system. V3 structure derived by applying v1's extraction methodology to the 9 SR translations: read the sources, identify the major conceptual domains the texts treat as distinct topics, extract the taxonomies and classifications the sources provide, create one file per domain.","website":"https://sagereasoning.com","api_endpoint":"https://sagereasoning.com/api/v1/stoic-brain","last_updated":"2026-03-30","license":"SageReasoning Proprietary Licence v1.0","architecture":{"derivation_methodology":"V1 derived its 4-file structure by reading 5 sources in standard English translation and extracting one file per major conceptual domain. V2 applied better content (from original-language translations) to v1's structure. V3 applies v1's same extraction methodology to the full corpus of 9 SR translations from Greek and Latin originals. The new translations cover substantially more material, so v3 yields 8 files instead of v1's 5.","version_history":{"v1":"4 source files + schema. Structure derived from 5 sources in standard English translation. Files: stoic-brain (hub), virtues, indifferents, scoring-rules, schema.","v2":"Same structure as v1. Better content from original-language SR translations. Same assumptions, same architecture.","v3":"8 files. Structure derived by applying v1's methodology to the full 9-source SR translation corpus. Each file maps to a conceptual domain the sources treat as a distinct topic."},"files":[{"file":"stoic-brain.json","domain":"Hub + Foundations","description":"Central index. Contains the unifying foundational concepts that tie all domains together: core premise, dichotomy of control, flourishing, the sage ideal, cosmic framework.","why_here":"V1 placed foundational content in stoic-brain.json. The same concepts (dichotomy of control, flourishing, core premise) appear across all sources as the integrating framework."},{"file":"psychology.json","domain":"Stoic Psychology (psyche)","description":"The ruling faculty, impression-assent-impulse causal sequence, impulse taxonomy.","why_here":"Stobaeus Eclogae 2.86-97 and DL Lives 7.40-43 both treat the soul's causal mechanism as a distinct topic. Stobaeus places the impulse taxonomy (8 types: prothesis through thelesis) here, not in his section on action."},{"file":"passions.json","domain":"Passions and Good Feelings (pathe / eupatheiai)","description":"The 4 root passions with sub-species, the 3 eupatheiai, passion as false judgement.","why_here":"Stobaeus dedicates Section 5 ('On the Passions and the Good Feelings') to this topic as a standalone major section. DL gives 7.110-116 as a dedicated treatment. The passions are the most granular taxonomy in Stoic ethics and the primary diagnostic tool for evaluating actions. V1 scattered this content; v3 gives it the standalone treatment the sources do."},{"file":"virtue.json","domain":"Virtue (arete)","description":"Unity thesis, nature of virtue as knowledge, 4 expressions with sub-expressions.","why_here":"DL 7.92-93 and 7.125, Stobaeus Eclogae 2.59-63, and Cicero De Officiis 1.15-18 all treat virtue definitions as a distinct topic."},{"file":"value.json","domain":"Value Theory (axia)","description":"Genuine goods, genuine evils, indifferents with selective value continuum, selection principles.","why_here":"Stobaeus Eclogae Section 3 ('On the Classification of Goods and Ills') and DL 7.101-107 both treat value classification as a standalone topic. Cicero De Finibus 3.50-57 adds the preferred/dispreferred framework. V1 called this 'indifferents.json' but the sources treat it as a broader topic encompassing goods, evils, AND indifferents."},{"file":"action.json","domain":"Action Theory (praxis)","description":"Kathekon/katorthoma distinction, oikeiosis developmental sequence, Cicero's deliberation framework.","why_here":"Stobaeus Eclogae Section 4 ('On Appropriate Action and Right Action') treats this as a major standalone section. Cicero's De Officiis is entirely organized around appropriate action and deliberation. DL 7.36-40 covers oikeiosis as a distinct developmental topic."},{"file":"progress.json","domain":"Moral Progress (prokope)","description":"Binary sage/non-sage distinction, Senecan 3 grades, progress metrics.","why_here":"Stobaeus Eclogae 2.66 preserves Chrysippus on stages of progress. Seneca Epistulae 75 provides the 3-grade framework. DL 7.71-80 describes the sage ideal. Epictetus Discourses 1.4 addresses moral progress. The sources consistently treat the sage ideal and the path toward it as a distinct topic."},{"file":"scoring.json","domain":"Scoring Engine (application layer)","description":"How SageReasoning applies the source-derived philosophy to evaluate human actions. This is the APPLICATION of the other 7 files, not a source domain itself.","why_here":"V1's methodology separated source content from application content (scoring-rules.json was clearly labeled as SageReasoning's design). V3 maintains this separation. The scoring engine uses the causal sequence from psychology.json, the diagnostic framework from passions.json, the deliberation framework from action.json, and the progress model from progress.json."}]},"methodology":{"glossary_version":"3.0.0 (67 terms, 11 categories)","translation_count":9,"derivation_process":["Step 1: Read all 9 SR translations from original Greek/Latin texts","Step 2: Identify the major conceptual domains each source treats as a distinct topic","Step 3: Map which sources contribute to which domain","Step 4: For each domain, extract the taxonomies and classifications the sources provide","Step 5: Create one file per domain, internal structure mirroring how the sources organize that material","Step 6: Add hub file connecting the domains with shared foundational concepts","Step 7: Add application layer (scoring) clearly separated from source content"]},"primary_sources":["Marcus Aurelius, Meditations — SR translation from Greek TEI XML","Epictetus, Discourses + Enchiridion — SR translation from Greek TEI XML","Seneca, Epistulae Morales 1-122 — SR translation from Latin TEI XML","Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae — SR translation from Latin TEI XML","Seneca, De Vita Beata — SR translation from Latin TEI XML","Diogenes Laertius, Lives Book 7 — SR translation from Greek TEI XML","Cicero, De Finibus Book 3 — SR translation from Latin TEI XML","Cicero, De Officiis — SR translation from Latin TEI XML","Stobaeus, Anthology Book 2 — SR translation from Greek OCR (Wachsmuth-Hense 1884)"]},"foundations":{"core_premise":{"statement":"The only genuine good is virtue (arete). The only genuine evil is vice (kakia). Everything else is indifferent (adiaphoron). Flourishing (eudaimonia) is achieved by living in agreement with nature (homologoumenos te physei zen), which means living according to virtue.","sources":["DL Lives 7.87-89: 'the end is to live in agreement with nature, which is to live according to virtue'","Stobaeus Eclogae 2.77: the telos as agreement with nature","Cicero De Finibus 3.21-22: excellence alone is the highest good"]},"dichotomy_of_control":{"description":"What matters morally is only what is up to us (eph' hemin): our moral choice (prohairesis), judgements, impulses, desires, and aversions. Everything else is not up to us (ouk eph' hemin) and is indifferent.","up_to_us":["judgements (hypolepseis)","impulses (hormai)","desires (orexeis)","aversions (ekkliseis)","assent (synkatathesis)","moral choice (prohairesis)","character (ethos)"],"not_up_to_us":["body (soma)","reputation (doxa)","possessions (ktemata)","external events","other people's actions","death (thanatos)"],"source":"Epictetus Enchiridion 1; Discourses 1.1"},"flourishing":{"greek":"eudaimonia","latin":"beatitudo / vita beata","definition":"Living and acting in agreement with nature. Not a feeling of happiness but the objective quality of a life fully expressed through virtue.","sources":["DL Lives 7.87: 'the end is to live in agreement with nature, which is to live according to virtue'","Seneca De Vita Beata 3: 'the flourishing life is one that is in accordance with its own nature'","Seneca De Vita Beata 16: 'The happy life does not depend on length but on use'"],"stoic_vs_popular":"Popular usage treats flourishing as wealth, pleasure, or worldly success. Stoic flourishing is the activity of a virtuous soul — available to the formerly enslaved (Epictetus), the ill (Marcus Aurelius), or the condemned (Socrates).","terminological_note":"The Stoics distinguished beatitudo (flourishing) from felicitas (prosperity/worldly success). Only beatitudo follows from virtue; felicitas concerns externals."},"the_sage":{"description":"The perfectly wise person (sophos/sapiens). A theoretical benchmark. The Stoics acknowledged the sage appears 'as rarely as the phoenix' (Seneca Ep. 42.1). Its purpose is as a standard for the direction of moral progress (prokope).","characteristics":["Acts from unified virtue — all four expressions inseparable (DL 7.125)","Free from all destructive passions (apatheia) — experiences only eupatheiai","All judgements based on cognitive grasp (katalepsis), not mere opinion (doxa)","Internal freedom of moral choice (prohairesis) — cannot be constrained (Epictetus Disc. 4.1)","Citizen of the cosmos (kosmopolites) — concern extends to all rational beings through oikeiosis","Performs right actions (katorthomata), not merely appropriate actions (kathekonta)"],"source":"DL Lives 7.71-80; Stobaeus Eclogae 2.66; Seneca Ep. 42"},"cosmic_framework":{"description":"The Stoics held that the cosmos is governed by fate (heimarmene) which is identical with divine reason (logos) and providence (pronoia). Human freedom consists in aligning moral choice with this rational order through virtue.","sources":["DL Lives 7.38: cosmos arranged by rational principle, pervaded by pneuma","Marcus Aurelius Meditations 4.26: 'everything is interwoven, and the bond is sacred'"]}},"files":{"psychology":{"$ref":"./psychology.json"},"passions":{"$ref":"./passions.json"},"virtue":{"$ref":"./virtue.json"},"value":{"$ref":"./value.json"},"action":{"$ref":"./action.json"},"progress":{"$ref":"./progress.json"},"scoring":{"$ref":"./scoring.json"}},"api_interface":{"status":"PENDING — Phase 2 of website build","planned_endpoints":[{"endpoint":"GET /api/v1/virtues","description":"Returns the virtue taxonomy from virtue.json"},{"endpoint":"GET /api/v1/indifferents","description":"Returns indifferents with selective value from value.json"},{"endpoint":"POST /api/v1/score-action","description":"Submit an action, receive evaluation per scoring.json framework"},{"endpoint":"GET /api/v1/score-history/{user_id}","description":"Returns historical scores and prokope trend from progress.json metrics"},{"endpoint":"POST /api/v1/diagnose-passion","description":"Submit an action description, identify which passions from passions.json distorted judgement"},{"endpoint":"POST /api/v1/rank-indifferents","description":"Submit competing goals, receive virtue-ranked priorities per value.json selection principles"}],"ai_agent_instructions":"To use the Stoic Brain: load this file for the foundational framework, then load the relevant domain file(s) for your task. For action evaluation: psychology.json + passions.json + scoring.json. For virtue analysis: virtue.json. For decision-making: action.json + value.json. API key required — request at zeus@sagereasoning.com."}}