What term or phrase best describes the Roman stoic principle that the best citizens declare themselves citizens of the world and hence "deliberate about nothing as if [they] were detached from the community?"

a. cosmopolitan ideal
b. "Man is the measure of all things"
c. Pax Romana
d. "We have nothing to fear in death"


Answer: a

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