PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Epicurus, Stoicism, Stoa Poikile
13 Dec 2013
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Named after the porch (stoa poikile) where the school was founded. Covered all areas of philosophy, including subjects such as psychology, metaphysics, science, Founded by zeno (335-263 b. c. e. ) logic, and many more. There was a focus on ethics and on how you should life. Can be seen in our current term stoic. In advocacy of the independence of true happiness from the contingencies of life found a receptive ear in the hellenistic and roman world where people constantly faced prospect of sudden and drastic reversals of fortune. Born around 55 c. e. in southwestern turkey, coming to rome as a slave. Being a slave wasn"t as bad in the roman world as it was in the us in that slaves often did important work, had education, and more opportunity to become an improved person. Began to work in rome as a teacher of philosophy: criticism was faced from emperor, so he abolished all philosophers from rome, so.
