Zeno of Citium

In Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, she describes a town that holds a drawing that stones a person once a year because it is a tradition. In Epictetus’ The Handbook, he lays out the idea systems that stoics live by. A Stoic believes to let things happen as they happen and do not let emotions control the decisions that someone makes. Stoicism displays characteristics of preparing oneself before an important event happens, someone disassociating themselves from the pain someone experiences when they

When it comes to animals, some ancient philosophers have argued that they are fundamentally different from humans, while others believed that we share important attributes with animals. Here, I shall review some criteria used by ancient writers that both support and deny the claim that animals and humans are fundamentally different. In doing so, I will focus on what I consider to be the main criteria put forward by ancient philosophers in making their arguments. For instance, those who maintain that

The Stoic Tradition In the approximate year of 320 B.C., one could be walking down the street with a high probability of passing a house where several men would be gathered out on the porch. It is likely that this was a gathering of individuals discussing philosophy. The gatherings became a more common occurrence, and since they would take place out on the porches, the school of philosophy derived from them takes its name from the Greek stoa, or porch. The ideology of that movement is henceforth

Stoicism is a philosophy focused on the pursuit of virtue as a means of permanent happiness through denouncing all external desires which may corrupt this path. Whilst the central view that one should only focus on things they can control is easily applied to materialistic externals, the more personal the connection, the harder it becomes to practice. The major flaw of Stoicism, highlighted in McGill’s ‘The Issue of the Satisfaction of Desire’ is the belief that emotion is a product of mistaken judgments

Philosophy within Julius Caesar Philosophy of Ancient Rome during the era of Julius Caesar was heavily influenced by the beliefs of two contrasting principles, Stoicism and Epicureanism. Stoicism reflects the belief that knowledge is the root of all virtue, and that wise live in harmony with Fate. This includes remaining indifferent to both pleasure and pain to only endure what is totally necessary. To achieve this, Stoics put intellect over feelings, and do not let emotions hinder decisions and

Stoicism is a philosophy which originated in Greece around 300 B.C. It got its name from the place where its founder, Zeno, taught. He held his school in the stoa poikilê, a colonnade in Greece, and thus, he and his followers became known as Stoics. Stoicism also spread to Rome, where influential people including Seneca and Marcus Aurelius were adherents to Stoicism. There are three different areas that are a part of Stoic philosophy: logic, physics, and ethics. The Stoics believed that everything

Chapter One – Introduction to Stoicism A Brief Look into Stoicism An early Greek philosopher known as Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early third century BC founded stoicism, which is school of Hellenistic philosophy. Other forms of Hellenistic philosophy include Pythagoreanism, Sophism, Cynicism, Cyrenaicism, Platonism, Peripateticism, Pyrrhonism, Epicureanism, Eclecticism, Hellenistic Judaism, Neopythagoreanism, Hellenistic Christianity and Neoplatonism. What separates stoicism and makes it a

There is no stronger motivational factor in life than revenge and no stronger inhibitor of motivation than entitlement. People are motivated by the delta in their expectation and reality. Revenge causes people not only to make rash decisions but also makes them have a stronger drive to do whatever they can to exact their revenge. The other side of that is that entitlement leads people to achieve nothing, if someone believes they can win because of who they are chances are they won’t achieve it. However

Chrysippus of Soli was from Soli, Cilicia and shifted to Athens as a youth. There he became a disciple of Cleanthes. In 230 BC, when Cleanthes passed away, Chrysippus took over as the third Head of the school. He is known for expanding the doctrines of Zeno

balanced judgement that will be paid to balance the crime. For instance, murder could equal death. 4. In the space provided, briefly identify your third philosopher, and describe and explain their position. My third and final philosopher will be Zeno of Citium. He believed that the entire universe that we know is God, a divine entity that knows all. He believes that the God of the universe perceives, and for sees everything, as well as producing everything within the realm, known as a divine fire.