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The members of the Stoics’ ideal society are bound together by friendship. The structure of this harmonious society and the manner in which it is able to remain harmonious can therefore be inferred from the nature of the friendships its members maintain with one another. It can be argued that the Stoics give content to the virtues of friendship reportedly possessed by members of the ideal society, explaining in what these virtues consist, then indicating how those who possess them trend to form the kinds of relationships, i.e. friendships, of which the social fabric is ideally woven. The person who possesses these virtues (i.) refrains from harming others, and (ii.) extends goodwill to other people where it does not conflict with prior obligations. The Stoics thus describe the manner in which virtuous peoble are able to befriend, and maintain friendly relations with other people by practicing the virtues of friendship. Thus, the number of mutually beneficial relationships is multiplied as virtuous people extend friendship to as many people as are capable of returning it. As a result, the ability of virtuous people to bring about the ideal society is limited only by the unwillingness of others to return their gestures of friendship.

Stoic Utopia: The Use of Friendship in Creating the Ideal Society