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Stoic physics refers to the natural philosophy of the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome which they used to explain the natural processes at work in the universe. To the Stoics, the cosmos is a single pantheistic god, one which is rational and creative, and which is the basis of everything which exists.
πνεῦμα: air, breath, spirit, often as a principle in Stoic physics. proêgmena προηγμένα: preferred things. Morally indifferent but naturally desirable things, such as health. Opposite of apoproêgmena. proficiens Latin for prokoptôn. pro(h)airesis
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Cleanthes was born in Assos in the Troad, about 330 BC. [a] According to Diogenes Laërtius, [2] he was the son of Phanias, and early in life he was a successful boxer.With but four drachmae in his possession he came to Athens, where he took up philosophy, listening first to the lectures of Crates the Cynic, [3] and then to those of Zeno, the Stoic.
Stoicism posits that the universe is a single, living entity permeated by a divine rational principle known as the logos. This principle organizes and animates the cosmos, functioning as its soul. [14] Central to Stoic cosmology is the belief that the logos operates as the rational structure underlying all existence. This rational principle is ...
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Founder of Stoicism, three branches of philosophy (physics, ethics, logic), [1] Logos, rationality of human nature, phantasiai, katalepsis, world citizenship [2] Zeno of Citium ( / ˈ z iː n oʊ / ; Koinē Greek : Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς , Zēnōn ho Kitieus ; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium ( Κίτιον ...
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