In this article, I vindicate the longstanding intuition that Stoics are transitional figures in history of ethics. argue committed to thinking ideal human happiness as a life virtue is impossible for some people, whom dub ‘hopeless fools.’ conjunction with Stoic view everyone subject same rational requirements perform ‘appropriate actions’ or ‘duties’ (kath¯ekonta/officia), and plausible eudaim...

Estimating the degree of similarity between images is a challenging task as the similarity always depends on the context. Because of this context dependency, it seems quite impossible to create a universal metric for the task. The number of low-level features on which the judgement of similarity is based may be rather low, however. One approach to quantifying the similarity of images is to esti...