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Definition:
Contemporary with
Plato and
Aristotole,
Stoicism was an ancient Greek philosophy which
emphasized the close relationship between human activity and nature. Stoicism argued that
humans must be governed by the use of reason and law in order to achieve a harmonious
existence.
The title Stoicism was derived from Stoa Poikile, the hall where the philosophy was first used by Zeno of Citium. Stoics were materialists, denying the reality of anything beyond the body, who believed that the use of logic in reasoned discourse reflected the use of a cosmic Reason in nature. Both Judaism and early Christianity were heavily influenced by Stoicism.
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