Law, Reason, and the Cosmic City: Political Philosophy in the Early StoaThe notions of the cosmic city and the common law are central to early Stoic political thought. As Vogt shows, together they make up one complex theory. A city is a place governed by the law. Yet on the law pervading the cosmos can be considered a true law, and thus the cosmos is the only real city. A city is also a dwelling place in the case of the cosmos, the dwelling place of all human beings. Further, a city demarcates who belongs together as