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  • Marcin Grotaцитируетв прошлом году
    He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.
  • Marcin Grotaцитируетв прошлом году
    The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature.
  • Marcin Grotaцитируетв прошлом году
    hn. was the Stoic idea of Virtue.
  • Marcin Grotaцитируетв прошлом году
    Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, was born in Cyprus at some date unknown, but his life may be said roughly to be between the years 350 and 250 B.C.
  • Marcin Grotaцитируетв прошлом году
    He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.
  • legendцитирует2 года назад
    Upon this the senses write their impressions, fantasias and by experience of a number of these the soul unconsciously conceives general notions koinai eunoiai or anticipations. prolhyeis When the impression was such as to be irresistible it was called (katalnptikh fantasia) one that holds fast, or as they explained it, one proceeding from truth.
  • legendцитирует2 года назад
    This dictum might easily be taken to mean that virtue consists in yielding to each natural impulse; but that was very far from the Stoic meaning. In order to live in accord with nature, it is necessary to know what nature is; and to this end a threefold division of philosophy is made—into Physics, dealing with the universe and its laws, the problems of divine government and teleology; Logic, which trains the mind to discern true from false; and Ethics, which applies the knowledge thus gained and tested to practical life. The Stoic system of physics was materialism with an infusion of pantheism. In contradiction to Plato's view that the Ideas, or Prototypes, of phenomena alone really exist, the Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether
  • legendцитирует2 года назад
    This conforming of the life to nature oralogoumenwz th fusei zhn. was the Stoic idea of Virtue.
  • legendцитирует2 года назад
    trod the path beaten by his predecessors, seeking only to do his duty as well as he could, and to keep out corruption
  • legendцитирует2 года назад
    . He trod the path beaten by his predecessors, seeking only to do his duty as well as he could, and to keep out corruption
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