Stoic News: A Reader’s Guide to the Corpus

A Reader’s Guide to the Corpus — Enumerated Companion v2.0

Theoretical foundations: Grant C. Sterling (Eastern Illinois University). Analysis and synthesis: Dave Kelly. Prose rendering: Claude (Anthropic). 2026.

This companion extends A Reader’s Guide to the Corpus. The prose Guide describes the eight layers; this companion lists every corpus document under its layer, one line per document, with status. Registry numbers follow the System Map (v3.0; v3.1 as ratified recovery; v3.3). Documents without numbers await v3.4 registration.

I. Foundations

Document 12. A Brief Reply: Re Dualism — Ratified.
Document 13. Stoic Dualism and “Nature” — Ratified.
Document 14. Free Will and Causation — Ratified.
Document 15. The Six Philosophical Commitments That Ground Stoic Practice — Ratified.
Document 16. Stoicism, Moral Facts, and Ethical Intuitionism — Ratified.
Document 17. Stoicism, Foundationalism and the Structure of Ethical Knowledge — Ratified.
Document 18. Stoicism, Correspondence Theory of Truth and Objective Moral Facts — Ratified.
Document 19. Stoicism, Moral Realism, and the Necessity of Objective Moral Facts — Ratified.
Document 20. The Six Commitments Integrated with the Most Basic Foundations of Sterling’s Stoicism — Ratified.
Document 25. C15 Commitment Essay — Substance Dualism — Ratified.
Document 26. C2 Commitment Essay — Libertarian Free Will — Ratified (revised with direct quotation).
Document 27. C3 Commitment Essay — Ethical Intuitionism — Ratified (revised with direct quotation).
Document 28. C4 Commitment Essay — Foundationalism — Ratified (revision pending).
Document 29. C5 Commitment Essay — C5 Commitment Essay — Correspondence Theory of Truth — Ratified (revision pending).
Document 30. C6 Commitment Essay — Moral Realism — Ratified (revised with direct quotation).
Document 31. Dogmata, the Six Commitments, and the Structure of Sterling’s Stoicism
in Sterling’s Stoicism — Pending v3.4 registration.
Stoic Dualism: The Unified Soul and the Collapse of the Tripartite Model — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Atomic Foundation of Sterling’s Stoicism — A Dependency Structure v1.0 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
The Six Commitments Integrated with the Core Stoicism Theorems v1.0 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
The Six Commitments as Necessary Conditions for the Core Stoicism Theorems — The Argument v1.0 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
The Six Commitments as Necessary Conditions for Epictetus’s Ethical Psychology — A Load-Bearing Demonstration — Pending v3.4 registration.

II. The System Itself

Document 1. Core Stoicism (Grant C. Sterling, ISF, September 19, 2005) — Ratified.
Document 40. Tonal Map — The Classical Stoic System — Ratified.
Core Stoicism Spelled Out — Series Index v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Core Stoicism Spelled Out series (twenty-five documents, Th 1–29) — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
A Prose Model of the Sterling System v1.0 Correction pending v3.4 registration.
Joint One Developed — The Three Rungs of the Fork v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Joint Two Developed — The Hinge Chain from Line 14 to Line 29 v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Joint Three Developed — The Innocent Channel and the Trapdoor v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Rational Faculty and the Moral Order — Pending v3.4 registration.
Hub Map: The Rational Faculty and the Moral Order, with the Sixteen Field Audits as Perimeter — Pending v3.4 registration.
Joy as Theorem, Not Premise — A Correction to the Propositional Logic Rendering of Core Stoicism — Pending v3.4 registration.
Virtue at Stake in Every Moment — The Theme Developed v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Virtue Is at Stake at Every Moment — A Proof v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Discipline of Action — Its Propositional Grounding in Core Stoicism — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Connective Map — How Core Stoicism’s Sections Actually Integrate v1.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Clause (a) in the Recovery Audit — The Value Guard in Functional Order v1.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Correct Use of Impressions in Functional Order — Clauses, Guards, and the Connective Map v1.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Two Clauses of Correct Use of Impressions — The Core Stoicism Theorems Organized Around Them v1.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Functional Order for the Practitioner — Why the Clause (a) Cluster Reads as It Does v1.2 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Systematic View for the Practitioner — Core Stoicism in Functional Order v1.2 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Naming and Invocation of Clause (a)’s Functional-Order Cluster v1.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Eight Moments of Clause (a), Developed v1.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Clause (a) Cluster, Explained Sentence by Sentence v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Clause (b) Cluster, Explained Sentence by Sentence v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.

III. Practice

Document 11. The Correct Stoic Attitude — A Manual — Ratified.
Document 32. Integrated Practical Model — Ratified.
Document 134. Correct Belief: Its Specification in Sterling’s Framework — Registered; ratification pending.
Document 135. The Simplest Logic of Correct Belief — Registered; ratification pending.
The Five-Step Method: Commitment Operations Across Each Step — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Pathos Already Occurred — Corpus Verdict and Method Normalization v1.0 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
Manual of Practical Rational Action — Version 1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Manual of Stoic Rational Agency — Version 1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Stoic Philosophical Training Method — Version 1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
SAM Individual — Stoic Agent Machine for Personal Use — Pending v3.4 registration.
One Act of Correct Engagement — Pending v3.4 registration.

IV. Instruments

Document 2. The Sterling Logic Engine (registered at v4.0; current master file v4.3) — Ratified.
Document 4. Sterling Decision Framework v3.3 — Ratified.
Document 21. Classical Ideological Audit (CIA) v3.0 — Ratified.
Document 22. Sterling Corpus Evaluator (SCE) v1.0 — Ratified.
Document 33. Classical Presupposition Audit (CPA) v1.0 — Ratified.
Document 35. Stoic Narrative Prose Instrument (GNP) v1.0 — Ratified.
Document 36. Classical Action Audit (CAA) v1.0 — Ratified.
Document 37. Scholar Field Instrument (SFI) v1.0 — Ratified.
Document 38. Instrument Grounding Map v1.0 — Ratified.
Document 39. Character Dogma Register (CDR) v1.1 — Ratified.
Document 42. Classical Restoration Instrument (CRI) v1.0 — Ratified.
The Scholar Engagement Instrument (SEI) v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Classical Judgment Recovery Instrument (CJRI) v1.2 — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Cultural Displacement Audit (CDA) v1.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
PLCI v1.1 — Extended Propositional Logic Conversion Instrument — Pending v3.4 registration.
SRGI — Stoic-Realist General Instrument — Protocol v2.4 — Pending v3.4 registration.
SDF Scenario Generator Instrument v2.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Commitment Dependency Structure (CDS) v0.2 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.

V. The Audit of the Fields

Classical Field Audits

Classical Field Audit — Anthropology — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Economics — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Education — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Epistemology — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Ethics — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — History — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Journalism — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Law — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Literary Criticism — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Medicine — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Philosophy — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Political Theory — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Psychiatry — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Psychology — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Sociology — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Field Audit — Theology — Pending v3.4 registration.

CRI Runs and Restoration Completion Essays (Documents 43–63)

Document 43. CRI Run — Psychology (Prescriptive; series template) — Ratified.
Document 44. CRI Run — Ethics (Hybrid: W. D. Ross) — Ratified.
Document 45. Completing the Rossian Framework — C1/C2 — Ratified.
Document 46. CRI Run — Theology (Hybrid: Plantinga; Full Restoration) — Ratified.
Document 47. CRI Run — Law (Hybrid: Finnis) — Ratified.
Document 48. Completing the Finnisian Framework — C1 — Ratified.
Document 49. CRI Run — Epistemology (Hybrid: Plantinga) — Ratified.
Document 50. CRI Run — Literary Criticism (Self-Audit Hybrid) — Ratified.
Document 51. CRI Run — Philosophy (Self-Audit Hybrid) — Ratified.
Document 52. Completing the Philosophical Framework — C1 — Ratified.
Document 53. CRI Run — History (Prescriptive) — Ratified.
Document 54. CRI Run — Political Theory (Prescriptive) — Ratified.
Document 55. CRI Run — Journalism (Prescriptive) — Ratified.
Document 56. CRI Run — Economics (Prescriptive) — Ratified.
Document 57. CRI Run — Education (Prescriptive) — Ratified.
Document 58. CRI Run — Medicine (Prescriptive) — Ratified.
Document 59. CRI Run — Psychiatry (Prescriptive) — Ratified.
Document 60. CRI Run — Sociology (Prescriptive) — Ratified.
Document 61. CRI Run — Anthropology (Prescriptive) — Ratified; Correction 24 pending.
Document 62. CRI Run — Medicine (Hybrid: Pellegrino) — Ratified.
Document 63. Completing the Pellegrino Framework — C1 — Ratified.

CPA Runs, Philosophy/Epistemology Cluster (Documents 64–77)

Document 64. CPA Run — Edmund D. Pellegrino — Ratified.
Document 65. CPA Run — Geach — Ratified.
Document 66. CPA Run — MacIntyre — Ratified.
Document 67. CPA Run — Feser — Ratified.
Document 68. CPA Run — Parfit — Ratified.
Document 69. CPA Run — Enoch — Ratified.
Document 70. CPA Run — Bloom — Ratified.
Document 71. CPA Run — Steup — Ratified.
Document 72. CPA Run — Swinburne — Ratified.
Document 73. CPA Run — BonJour — Ratified.
Document 74. CPA Run — Fumerton — Ratified.
Document 75. CPA Run — Alston — Ratified.
Document 76. CPA Run — Zagzebski — Ratified.
Document 77. CPA Run — Weber — Ratified.

Founder-Generation CRI Cluster (Documents 78–81)

Document 78. CRI Run — Durkheim (Founder-Generation) — Ratified.
Document 79. CRI Run — Boas (Founder-Generation) — Ratified.
Document 80. CRI Run — Comte (Founder-Generation) — Ratified.
Document 81. CRI Run — Marx (Founder-Generation) — Ratified.

Sociology Contemporary CPA Cluster (Documents 82–86)

Document 82. CPA Run — Rieff — Ratified.
Document 83. CPA Run — Christian Smith — Ratified.
Document 84. CPA Run — Nisbet — Ratified.
Document 85. CPA Run — Hunter — Ratified.
Document 86. CPA Run — Berger — Ratified.

Methodological Notes

Document 87. Fragmentary Retrieval — Standalone Note — Ratified.
The Sterling Approach to Restoration: From Fragmented Retrievals to a Unified Recovery of the Classical Commitments — Pending v3.4 registration.

Field Restoration Syntheses (Documents 88–106)

Document 88. Field Restoration Synthesis — Sociology (“The Person and the Social Bond”) — Ratified.
Document 89. Field Restoration Synthesis — Anthropology (“The Person and the Variety of Customs”) — Ratified.
Document 90. Field Restoration Synthesis — Economics (“The Agent and the Market”) — Ratified.
Document 91. Field Restoration Synthesis — Epistemology (“The Knowing Subject”) — Ratified.
Document 92. Field Restoration Synthesis — Ethics (“The Moral Life and Its Ground”) — Ratified.
Document 93. Field Restoration Synthesis — Philosophy (“The Philosopher and His Faculty”) — Ratified.
Document 94. Field Restoration Synthesis — Theology (“The Divine and the Discipline”) — Ratified.
Document 95. Field Restoration Synthesis — Law (“The Subject of Law and Its Ground”) — Ratified.
Document 96. Field Restoration Synthesis — Literary Criticism, primary (“The Author, the Text, and the Real”) — Ratified.
Document 97. Field Restoration Synthesis — Literary Criticism, companion (“The Encounter and Its Ground”) — Ratified.
Document 98. Field Restoration Synthesis — Medicine (“The Physician and the Person”) — Ratified.
Document 99. Field Restoration Synthesis — Political Theory (“The Political Subject and Its Ground”) — Ratified.
Document 100. Field Restoration Synthesis — Psychology (“The Agent Behind the Behavior”) — Ratified.
Document 101. Field Restoration Synthesis — History (“The Agent in Time”) — Ratification pending.
Document 102. Field Restoration Synthesis — Psychiatry (“The Person Behind the Diagnosis”) — Ratification pending.
Document 103. Field Restoration Synthesis — Education (“The Formation of the Rational Faculty”) — Ratification pending.
Document 104. Field Restoration Synthesis — Journalism (“The Fact and Its Meaning”) — Ratification pending.
Document 105. Field Restoration Synthesis — Philosophy of Mind (“The Subject That Studies Itself”) — Ratified.
Document 106. Field Restoration Synthesis — Philosophy of Science (“The Inquirer and the Real”) — Ratification pending.
Philosophy as a Way of Life: A Restorative Account — Pending v3.4 registration.
Philosophy as a Way of Life: The Examined Life Restored — Pending v3.4 registration.
When Philosophy Changed the Subject — Pending v3.4 registration.

New Classical Field Audits (Documents 107–108)

Document 107. Classical Field Audit — Philosophy of Mind — Ratification pending.
Document 108. Classical Field Audit — Philosophy of Science — Ratification pending.

CPA Clusters, Batch-Registered v3.3 (Documents 109–133)

Document 109. CPA Run — Chalmers — Registered.
Document 110. CPA Run — Nagel — Registered.
Document 111. CPA Run — Dennett — Registered.
Document 112. CPA Run — Searle — Registered.
Document 113. CPA Run — Hasker — Registered.
Document 114. CPA Run — Popper — Registered.
Document 115. CPA Run — Kuhn — Registered.
Document 116. CPA Run — Feyerabend — Registered.
Document 117. CPA Run — Psillos — Registered.
Document 118. CPA Run — Polanyi — Registered.
Document 119. CPA Run — Orwell — Registered.
Document 120. CPA Run — Lippmann — Registered.
Document 121. CPA Run — Chambers — Registered.
Document 122. CPA Run — Buckley — Registered.
Document 123. CPA Run — Neuhaus — Registered.
Document 124. CPA Run — Will (re-rendered; Correction 23) — Registered.
Document 125. CPA Run — Douthat — Registered.
Document 126. CPA Run — Rauch — Registered.
Document 127. CPA Run — Bloch — Registered.
Document 128. CPA Run — Butterfield — Registered.
Document 129. CPA Run — White — Registered.
Document 130. CPA Run — Jaspers — Registered.
Document 131. CPA Run — Rose — Registered.
Document 132. CPA Run — Maritain — Registered.
Document 133. CPA Run — Dewey — Registered.

Unregistered CPA, CIA, and CDA Runs

CPA Run — Alvin Plantinga — Pending v3.4 registration.
CPA Run — G. E. M. Anscombe — Pending v3.4 registration.
CPA Run — John Finnis — Pending v3.4 registration.
CPA Run — Michael Huemer — Pending v3.4 registration.
CPA Run — Roderick Chisholm — Pending v3.4 registration.
CPA Run — W. D. Ross — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Presupposition Audit — Adam Smith — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Presupposition Audit — Steve Fuller — Pending v3.4 registration.
Classical Ideological Audit — Epicureanism — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Cultural Displacement Audit (CDA) Run — Post-Conciliar Catholic Theological Institutional Practice — Pending v3.4 registration.

Pending Re-Registration

CPA Run — Victor Davis Hanson — Pending v3.4 re-registration.
CPA Run — Sen — Pending v3.4 re-registration.
CPA Run — Hayek — Pending v3.4 re-registration.
CPA Run — Nussbaum — Pending v3.4 re-registration.

VI. Applied Work

Document 34. Stoic Detective Ideology — Presupposition Set — Ratified.
SEAI — Situational Executive Application Instrument — Protocol v1.1 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
One Hundred Practical Applications of the Corpus for a Corporate Executive — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
Four Ways of Not Doing the Thing — Procrastination in Four American Novels — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
Abstainer [D]-Flag — Formal Statement — Pending v3.4 registration.
NCA Run — The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1 (Nick Carraway) v1.1 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
NCA Run — The Great Gatsby, Chapter 2 — Ratification pending.
The Classical Stoic Approach to Organizational Self-Governance — Pending v3.4 registration.
Stoicism and Adler’s Influence on Horney — Pending v3.4 registration.
Karen Horney’s Typology — Comprehensive Reference (v3) — Pending v3.4 registration.
Personality Analysis — Personal Statement (“Look at all of the instruments in my corpus.”) — Pending v3.4 registration.
The Appearance and the Wager — Pending v3.4 registration.
English as Code: Natural Language in the Era of Large Language Models — Pending v3.4 registration.
SCE Run — Seddon on the Pathos-Already-Occurred Case and Philosophy as Technê v1.0 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
Sterling Decision Framework v3.3 — Three Multi-Action Scenario Runs — Pending v3.4 registration.
Sterling’s Decision Framework — The Tullia Case, Corrected Run v1.1 — Pending v3.4 registration.
Does Science Recognize the Physics Ancient Stoic Ethics Was Connected To? — Pending v3.4 registration.

VII. Primary Sources

Document 3. Nine Excerpts and Full Texts About Stoicism (Grant C. Sterling) — Ratified.
Document 5. Seddon’s Glossary — Ratified.
Document 6. Seddon on Interests and Projects — Ratified.
Document 7. The Little Enchiridion — Ratified.
Document 8. Harshness and Beauty in Epictetus — Ratified.
Document 9. Stoicism Is Not Therapy, But Training (Grant C. Sterling) — Ratified.
Document 10. Two and One-Half Ethical Systems (Grant C. Sterling) — Ratified.
Document 23. Stoicism, Politics, and the Best Form of Government (Grant C. Sterling) — Ratified.
Document 41. ISF Archive Master Index (Parts 1–50) — Ratified.
Sterling on Foundationalism and Intuition — Two Primary Source Documents from the ISF Archive — Pending v3.4 registration.
Sterling on Kataleptic Impressions: The Primary-Source Record (v1.1) — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
Grant C. Sterling on What Makes a Stoic — Pending v3.4 registration.
Egoism and Altruism — Pending v3.4 registration.
My Desires Are My Judgments — Pending v3.4 registration.
Stoicism and Self-Interest: What Is Our Interest? — Pending v3.4 registration.
The One Method — Pending v3.4 registration.

VIII. Governance

Document 24. Core Vector Space: Explanation — Ratified.
Sterling Decision Framework — System Map (current v3.3; the registry itself) — Ratified.
The Corrective Layer: Why LLM Use Presupposes the Six Commitments — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
The Falsity of the Replacements: An Argument from Actual Correction — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
The Corrective Layer v1.0 — Pending v3.4 registration.
A Reader’s Guide to the Corpus — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.
A Reader’s Guide to the Corpus — Enumerated Companion v1.0 — Ratified; pending v3.4 registration.

Theoretical foundations: Grant C. Sterling (Eastern Illinois University). Analysis and synthesis: Dave Kelly. Prose rendering: Claude (Anthropic). 2026.

Stoic News

Monday, July 20, 2026

A Reader’s Guide to the Corpus — Enumerated Companion v2.0

A Reader’s Guide to the Corpus — Enumerated Companion v2.0

I. Foundations

II. The System Itself

III. Practice

IV. Instruments

V. The Audit of the Fields

VI. Applied Work

VII. Primary Sources

VIII. Governance

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