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Zeno of Citium was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus who founded the Stoic school of philosophy in Athens around 300 BC. Stoicism is a philosophy of personal virtue ethics which asserts that the practice of virtue is necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia or happiness.
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Stoic physical theory included topics traditionally covered by natural philosophy, and it also included logic, rhetoric, grammar, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
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Stoic ethics is eudaimonist in structure, positing happiness as the ultimate practical goal.
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Zeno of Citium was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from living a life of virtue in accordance with nature. It proved very popular, and flourished as one of the major schools of philosophy from the Hellenistic period through to the Roman era, and enjoyed revivals in the Renaissance as Neostoicism and in the current era as Modern Stoicism.
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Zeno of Citium was a Hellenistic philosopher who founded the Stoic school of philosophy, which influenced the development of philosophical and ethical thought in Hellenistic and Roman times. He taught that happiness lay in conforming the will to the divine reason, which governs the universe, and his philosophical system included logic and theory of knowledge, physics, and ethics. His many treatises, written in harsh but forceful Greek, have survived save in fragmentary quotations.
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