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Stoicism considers all existence as cyclical, the cosmos as eternally self-creating and self-destroying (see also Eternal return). Stoicism does not posit a beginning or end to the Universe. [32] According to the Stoics, the logos was the active reason or anima mundi pervading and animating the entire Universe. It was conceived as material and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Also called humanocentrism. The practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and concerns of human beings as the central fact of the universe. This is similar, but not identical, to the practice of relating all that happens in the universe to the human experience. To clarify, the first position concludes that the fact of human existence is the point of universal existence; the ...
Stoicism, the grit-and-glory philosophy of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, has been processed into edible TikTok meme bites, a la, "It's not what happens to us that matters, it's how we react to ...
The Stoics did recognise the presence of incorporeal things such as void, place and time, [13] but although real they could not exist and were said to "subsist". [14] Stoicism was thus fully materialistic; [Note a] the answers to metaphysics are to be sought in physics; particularly the problem of the causes of things for which Plato's theory ...
Splitting, also called binary thinking, dichotomous thinking, black-and-white thinking, all-or-nothing thinking, or thinking in extremes, is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both perceived positive and negative qualities of something into a cohesive, realistic whole.
Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79AD, the secret of a papyrus scroll kept their secrets hidden for centuries. Now one has been deciphered by AI.