stoics in English
The modest, by contrast, realise that, in the sum of history and geography, they're but a tiny, passing crater, and the stoics know that human pain has to be suffered and can't just be railed against.
One school of ancient philosophers, the Stoics , developed a distinctive view of Medea as part of their ethics and psychology.
Use "stoics" in a sentence
1. Epicureans and Stoics
2. Others were Stoics, stressing self-discipline.
3. The Stoics developed three eidetic reductions of future misfortune.
4. REILLY It is possible that the spiritualists may become the stoics of a new epoch of Caesarian rule
5. Well known eclectics in Greek philosophy were the Stoics Panaetius and Posidonius, and the New Academics Carneades and Philo of Larissa.
6. The Epicureans and Stoics for the most part rated him as a talkative lounger in the agora and either Berated him with ridicule upon the Hill of Ares or waved him aside (Acts 17:16-32)
7. Although other Stoics see potential in beauty to be an ethical stimulus, a way to attract and develop affection and friendship within sexual relations, Seneca distrusts the love of physical beauty as destroying reason to the point of insanity.
8. On the other hand, the intellectual circle of the day was abuzz not only with the philosophical ideas of Plato and Aristotle but also with those of the newer schools, such as the Epicureans and the Stoics.
9. In fact, Stoicism descends directly from Cynicism and both of which descend from Socrates.As Juvenal would say in his Satires, the Stoics “differ from the Cynics only by a tunic.”And it should go without saying that the definition of both
10. ‘Against both Epicurus and the Stoics, Carneades argued that no deterministic consequences follow from the principle of Bivalence (the principle that for any statement P, either P is true or P is false).’ ‘So we may represent the Aristotelian solution as one which rejects the law of Bivalence.’
11. The stone seats of the Areopagus lay open to the sky; in the court stood Epicureans, Stoics, etc.; around them spread the city, full of idolaters and their temples; and little south-east rose the steep height of the Acropolis, on whose level summit were crowded more and richer idolatrous structures than on any other equal space in the world.
12. 1600, "calmness, impassivity," a term used by stoics and skeptics, from Modern Latin, from Greek Ataraxia "impassiveness," from a-"not, without" (see a-(3)) + tarassein (Attic tarattein) "to disturb, confuse," from PIE root *dhrehgh-"to confuse." It seems to have been disused; when Ataraxia appeared in print in English in 1858 it was regarded as a