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- The Stoics The Cynics were instrumental in the development of the Stoic school of philosophy, which grew up in Athens around 300 B.C. Its founder was Zeno, who came originally from Cyprus and joined the Cynics in Athens after being shipwrecked.†
Chpt 12Stoics = people who try to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- The Stoics The Cynics were instrumental in the development of the Stoic school of philosophy, which grew up in Athens around 300 B.C. Its founder was Zeno, who came originally from Cyprus and joined the Cynics in Athens after being shipwrecked.†
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- The name "Stoic" comes from the Greek word for portico (stoo).†
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- Stoicism was later to have great significance for Roman culture.†
Chpt 12stoicism = a school of philosophy whose adherents try not to be affected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- Like Heraclitus, the Stoics believed that everyone was a part of the same common sense—or "logos."†
Chpt 12Stoics = people who try to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- In this, then, the Stoics sided with Socrates against the Sophists.†
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- The Stoics considered the legal statutes of the various states merely as incomplete imitations of the "law" embedded in nature itself.†
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- In the same way that the Stoics erased the difference between the individual and the universe, they also denied any conflict between "spirit" and "matter."†
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- As true children of their time, the Stoics were distinctly "cosmopolitan," in that they were more receptive to contemporary culture than the "barrel philosophers" (the Cynics).†
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- Some years later, the Stoic Seneca (4 B.C.-A. D. 65) said that "to mankind, mankind is holy."†
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- The Stoics, moreover, emphasized that all natural processes, such as sickness and death, follow the unbreakable laws of nature.†
Chpt 12Stoics = people who try to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- Even today we use the term "stoic calm" about someone who does not let his feelings take over.†
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- Both the Cynics and the Stoics interpreted his philosophy as meaning that man had to free himself from material luxuries.†
Chpt 12Stoics = people who try to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- The Cynics and the Stoics believed in enduring pain of all kinds, which is not the same as setting out to avoid pain.†
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- In contrast to the Stoics, the Epicureans showed little or no interest in politics and the community.†
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- Neoplatonism As I showed you, Cynicism, Stoicism, and Epicureanism all had their roots in the teaching of Socrates.†
Chpt 12stoicism = a school of philosophy whose adherents try not to be affected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- He visited the Jewish synagogue in Athens and conversed with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers.†
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- Christianity has begun to penetrate the Greco-Roman world as something else, something completely different from Epicurean, Stoic, or Neoplatonic philosophy.†
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- For a time he was influenced by Stoic philosophy, and according to the Stoics, there was no sharp division between good and evil.†
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- For a time he was influenced by Stoic philosophy, and according to the Stoics, there was no sharp division between good and evil.†
Chpt 15Stoics = people who try to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- You're probably thinking of the Stoics.†
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- That was why it was important to meet every situation with 'stoicism.'†
Chpt 19stoicism = a school of philosophy whose adherents try not to be affected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- Like the humanists of antiquity—such as Socrates and the Stoics—most of the Enlightenment philosophers had an unshakable faith in human reason.†
Chpt 23Stoics = people who try to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- At the same time we saw philosophers like the Stoics, for example, and Spinoza, who said that everything happens through the necessity of natural law.†
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Definitions:
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(stoic) seeming unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, a stoic can refer to a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno (known for striving to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions).